[TowerTalk] Capacitors To Tune 160 Vertical
Rick Karlquist
richard at karlquist.com
Wed Nov 28 14:38:30 EST 2007
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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