[Amps] tank coil heating

[Peter Chadwick]

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.