[Heathkit] cleaning wafer switches

Jim Shorney jshorney at inebraska.com
Sun Dec 4 18:16:14 EST 2011


On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:56:37 -0500 (EST), L L bahr wrote:

>Then there is the "don't use ceramic disc caps in audio circuits as the vibration will give you microphnics!"  Give me a break, I don't live on a fault zone so earthquakes are not a problem here.

Geez, Lee, get up on the wrong side of the bed today? Don't sweat the small
stuff. As for the above, my company had problems with one of our models of
high-end UHF wireless intercom belt packs from a ceramic SMT cap in the audio
chain causing microphonics in the audio. The fix was to replace it with a
tantalum.


73

-Jim
NU0C ( <- knows  how to make a dipole)

--
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