Capacitor for shiftOut()

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Hi quick question as I'm new enough with capacitors not to know which is meant. In the shiftOut() tutorial

it seems to say in the beginning that if you experience flickering place a .1uF capacitor. However down further in with the schematic of the set-up it says a 1uF cap. I know there's a difference between the two, I just don't know which one to go with and why.

Thanks

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You should use a 1uF capacitor.

[1uF is 1 micro farad or 1x10^-6 farads]

It is what Ed Halley uses on his 8x8 LED Matrix http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1237743605/16#16

and I know he is very experienced and has tested his circuits thoroughly.

Ben aka /me [aka PA Skins <R.I.P.>]

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