[Lowfer] Question on building homebrew variable caps...

[Bill Ashlock]

Mike,

>I would like to know if anyone has built variable capacitors for
>transmitters or tuners. I would like to build a variable capacitor that =
is
>at least 100pf and can handle 40 amps of RF current.

How are you figuring 40A in a 100pf capacitor? If this trimmer is part of=
 7000pf total resonant capacity for the loop the current would be divided=
 in proportion to the capacity. 100pf/7000pf x 40A =3D .57A. =20

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