What size decoupling cap is necessary for ESP-WROOM-32?

dan.heidel
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What size decoupling cap is necessary for ESP-WROOM-32?

Postby dan.heidel » Wed Mar 08, 2017 8:22 pm

I'm starting to design a breakout board for the ESP-WROOM-32 module and I'm looking at the ESP32-DevKit reference design as a starting point. One thing that really stood out was that they recommend a 100uF decoupling cap on the 3V3 input to the module. That seems like a lot, especially given that there's a few 10uF caps in the module itself. Does anyone out there have practical experience as to whether such a huge decoupling cap is really necessary? If anyone has tried a 47 or 10 uF cap instead and found it to work reliably, I'd love to hear.

Thanks!

mjmorrison
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Re: What size decoupling cap is necessary for ESP-WROOM-32?

Postby mjmorrison » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:30 pm

My team made a custom PCB that uses 10uF and that works nicely!

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