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Re: [TowerTalk] Capacitors To Tune 160 Vertical

To: "Bill Turner" <dezrat@copper.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Capacitors To Tune 160 Vertical
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Reply-to: richard@karlquist.com
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
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Bill Turner wrote:
> 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

That is only an issue with DC, which doesn't apply here.
In the DC case, the standard fix is to put swamping resistors
across the caps.

Rick N6RK

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