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Re: [TowerTalk] Capacitors To Tune 160 Vertical

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Capacitors To Tune 160 Vertical
From: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:20:13 -0800
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:41:28 -0800, "Jim Brown K9YC"
<k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

>I 
>could series the LV caps or parallel the HV caps. Does anyone have 
>experience or an educated guess?   

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

As a general rule, I would avoid putting the caps in series because
you never know exactly how the voltage will divide across them due to
minute differences in leakage. 999 times out of 1000 it may be ok, but
Murphy lives on that other tenth of a percent. In parallel, there is
no such issue.

73, Bill W6WRT
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