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[Amps] Mica capacitors - friend or foe?

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Subject: [Amps] Mica capacitors - friend or foe?
From: 2@mail.vcnet.com (Richard)
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:39:26 -0700
>Unfortunately that's not the main issue. What's relavent is how they perform 
>relative to other types (e.g. ceramic). You expressed the opinion that they 
>degrade more than other caps as f increases, and I am just trying to get you 
>to justify that opinion with some facts.

Rating of 50-Series ceramic, 100pF, 7.5kV, n750:  1MHz--3.6A, 30MHz--9.6A
http://www.highenergycorp.com/ceramic/ht50.html
>
>I don't think the fact that some capacitors in your junk box seem to have 
>decreased HF ratings (whatever you mean by that, anyway) is grounds for you 
>issuing your blanket condemnation of micas above 5 MHZ. 
> ... ... 
  I said that the current carrying ability decreases above 5MHz.  




-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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