Capacitor Mods 101

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alot of caps are chosen for their resonant frequency, as in the frequency when the caps impedance drops to non exsistant, basicly its a filter cap for lowering interference outa the band in use. Those large digital PSU electrolytics tend to be selected for that, they dont need to really be anything close to that 1000-3300uF value

ya dont wanna be changing much TBH adding caps in parallel to other power caps could lead you into creating ringy resonant circuits, cause of resonant harmoic modes or some crap ;()

paralleling caps onto the larger PSU caps on the board will lower the ESR of what would have been the single caps ESR, alowing the caps to discharge at a faster rate.

But u'll also lower the impedance of ya PSU lowering the noise on their lines and increasing the various IC's ability to focus on its job instead of waisting time screwing with interference

purer powers a good thing!

if anything it'll help with stability at high OC's unless the onboard powers a POS, not much else i dont think, im rookie though dont take my word for it

change the electrolytics for low ESR OS-con's or any other decent cap would probably be best, dont parralel em, improvments would be extreamly little though

or ya could parallel the larger PSU electrolytic on the stage ya screwing with, with a MLCC that resonates at the mid point of the band that stage works at

dunno if it'd be any good, dependant curcuit ect

im a rookie, for all i know im talkin complete &^$^