[Elecraft] Re: CAPACITOR VALUES

[Ingo Meyer DK3RED]

Hello John,

>... All the monolithic caps checked out fine, so did the electrolytics 
>but, when I turned to the NPO caps, I began to get very strange readings 
>from most of them.
>
>For example:
>
>     1 pf    read     21 pf
>     10pf    read    35PF
>
>     and so on up the scale ad nauseum.

It's a hard job for a DMM to messaure capacitors in the low range area. The 
values of the monolitic and electrolytics are larger than the NP0s. The 
reason is following. The leds are also capacitors - small ones but there 
are. Your additional wire is also a capacitor. So I suggest to trust the 
Elecraft gang and only to use your DMM if you don't know is it 100 pF or 10 
pF or so.

72/73 de Ingo, DK3RED   Don't forget: the fun is the power!

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