[ARC5] Mica Capacitor

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

In a message dated 09/18/2016 16:12:03 PM Central Daylight Time, 
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
>      Micamold was a brand name. The company made several types of caps 
> including real mica caps but is best known for the flat paper ones.

That's probably true today ("...is best known for...") but wasn't true back 
when they were in business.

>      I had not heard that early polystyrene caps had problems but can 
> believe the cases got leaky.  Cracking at the lead entry is a problem 
> with dipped caps even now.

Cracking at the lead entry point is one of the reasons that I have always 
hated Orange Drops. When used as the designer intended (on PC boards), there 
wasn't generally any cracking problem at least in non-vehicular or aircraft 
equipment.


Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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