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Re: [Amps] tank coil heating

To: R L Measures <r@somis.org>,Partain Chuck <Chuck_Partain@maxtor.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] tank coil heating
From: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
Reply-to: g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 09:34:56 +0200 (CEST)
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Rich said:
>N4700 is not designed for tuned circuits, it's for coupling and  
bypassing. <
>From memory, the dielectric loss is higher on N4700. So not only does it have 
>a poor temperature coefficient, it's lossier, too.
Figure that you can have 10 or 20 amps of RF running through that cap, so you 
can easily get a fair amount of dissipation in it. The application needs an NP0 
cap.
73
Peter G3RZP - will be at Dayton.
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