[TenTec] (no subject)

[Donald Watters]

Ken -

My 1990 Titan came with the teflon plates inbetween the variable cap metal 
plates.

I think they were to increase the capacitor's capacitance as teflon does 
have a
dielectric constant which increases capacity. Mica does the same but is 
fragile
and costly.

Hope this is some help.

Don,  VE1BN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown" <k.brown at jach.hawaii.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:37 AM
Subject: [TenTec] (no subject)


>I have seen Titan 425 amplifiers both with and without plastic spacers
> between the plates of the loading capacitor. I have already searched the
> archives and not found very much info on this. When did Ten-Tec Start
> putting the plastic sheets in there? What kind of plastic is it? I guess
> polyethylene or polypropylene?
>
> -- 
> Ken Brown N6KB
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>