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

Sun, 10 Nov 2002 22:27:58 -0600

Dang, I never thought of that. Thanks, now that cap should be easier to
build.

Mike>WE0H
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Behalf Of Bill Ashlock
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:55 PM
To: lowfer
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Question on building homebrew variable caps...

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 = .57A.

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