Re: Air core variable cap...

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Wells,

You are perfectly correct.  Often the tuning cap is too small of value to
be useful but the basic idea is sound.  I can't think of anyone doing this
now but it has been used in the past.  The cap should go in parallel not
series with the fixed primary cap.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 11:27 AM 1/13/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Just a thought...
>
>what would happen if one were to submerge that air core cap in castor
>oil, for instance? it seems like the capacitance and voltage rating would
>both go up considerably, enough to make it useful as a small tuning cap
>in series with tank caps?
>
>I haven't been following the thread too well, so pardon if I'm being
>redundant...
>
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