View Single Post
  #7   Report Post  
Old August 21st 18, 10:00 PM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
[email protected] jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by RadioBanter: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,898
Default What happened to polystyrene capacitors?

In rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Phi wrote:

wrote in message
...
In rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Phi wrote:

"Gareth's Downstairs Computer"
wrote in message
news You know, the ones in the clear plastic blobs, wire
ended with low puffage values and reputed to be super
stable?

Silver mica were the best.


Got any 1,000 uF silver micas?

--
Jim Pennino



Perhaps you forgot or don't know, they are not electrolytic.


Neither silver mica nor polystyrene capacitors are electrolytic.

What's your point?

Perhaps you forgot or don't know that in general polystyrene capacitors
are advantageous at audio frequencies while silver micas are advantageous
at RF frequencies and fill two entirely needs.

Read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_c...ilm_capacitors


--
Jim Pennino