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Minutes of the P-2.4 Committee on Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
October 30, 2001
Teleconference & ECA Internet Website Meeting

1.0 Introductions
Chairman Mike Mosier welcomed the participants to the first official Teleconference meeting of the committee. He announced that the agenda and the two documents up for discussion today were posted on the ECA website. Copies of the documents and the meeting notice had previously been distributed via e-mail. The passwords for access to copies on the website were distributed by e-mail the morning of the meeting. The access to the documents appeared to work satisfactorily for everyone.

2.0 Committee Organization and Procedures

2.1 Membership and Attendance
Attendance was taken, and it was officially determined that a quorum was present.

2.2 Approval of Agenda
The Agenda was approved.

2.3 Approval of October, 2000 Meeting Minutes
Approval of minutes of the Tuesday, 24 April, 2001 meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, TX will be deferred and the Approval of the Tuesday, 09 October 2001 meeting at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia, PA will also be deferred to the face-to-face meeting at the ECA Spring 2002 Engineering Summit.

3.0 New Business

3.1 Committee discussion and vote to ballot on:

3.1.1 PN 4984 - Surface Mount Aluminum Electrolytic Chip Capacitor with Polymer Cathode
The committee decided to deal with PN 4985 first. As the meeting was drawing to an end, the Chair asked if there were any major issues regarding this document. Hearing none, the document will proceed as is.

3.1.2 PN 4985 - Aluminum Electrolytic Chip Capacitor with Polymer Cathode
The committee decided to work on this item first during the teleconference. Previous to this teleconference, Terry Charles had drafted this document and sent it around to the subcommittee members for comment. He then had a conference call with Mike Lauri, Laird Macomber. A few items were corrected and submitted.

· PARAGRAPH 1. Discussion on the teleconference began addressing Paragraph 1, specifically regarding the term 'immersion' and the length of time for the recommended nominal temperature and duration. The committee unanimously agreed to pull the entire sentence out of the document.

· PARAGRAPH 1. The committee unanimously agreed to modify the Maximum Temperature and duration statement by adding 'measured at the top of the part' to the end of the sentence.

· PARAGRAPH 1.1 Suggested land pattern. After discussion, the committee unanimously agreed to keep the Typical land pattern depicted in the document.

· PARAGRAPH 2.2 Dimensions. Discussion pursued on how to list the Size Code. The committee decided to address the two digits at the end of the code by having it determine the maximum height (H) dimension. That being the case, the table should be changed to read 7343-12 instead of -11 in the first row. The second row (H) should read 1.8±0.2 and therefore the Size Code should become 7343-20. The (H) dimension in the third row should be 2.8±0.3. The fourth row (H) dimension should read 4.0±0.3 and thus the Size Code should read 7343-43.

· Since the Chair had allotted a one-hour length for the teleconference, and the Editor Terry Charles had some additional changes to the document from the posted version, it was agreed that Mr. Charles would forward to Ed Mikoski a copy of the latest file incorporating the changes that the committee had discussed today. This would then be posted on the ECA Website for the committee to review and prepare specific questions to be forwarded to the Chair. Mr. Mosier will compile the comments and will send it out to the committee so they can be placed on the agenda for the next teleconference. He estimates that there will be approximately a three-week period to have the members review the documents, prepare and forward the comments. Then about a week for him to compile the comments. Therefore, the Chair estimates that there will be another teleconference in about a month.

4.0 Next Meeting
The next meeting will be a Teleconference/Website meeting in late November.

5.0 Adjournment
The member discussion was completed by 4:00 PM EST.

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA legal guidelines and the manual of organization and procedures.

Michael Mosier, Chairman
Signature on file

Edward F. Mikoski, Jr., Acting Secretary
Signature on file

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