[Amps] More parasitic choke questions

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 27 10:41:55 PDT 2010


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On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:35:45 +0100, Steve Thompson <g8gsq at f2s.com>
wrote:

>What is preferred about carbon comp?

REPLY:

Least amount of internal parasitic inductance. The current path in a
carbon comp is straight through as opposed to some film type resistors
which have a spiral cut resistive element. 

Whether that is significant or not is another question. 

73, Bill W6WRT


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