On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:05:19 -0800, Winfield Hill wrote:

Henry Kiefer wrote...

I can buy resistors and capacitors with 5%, sometimes with 1%. If you
build a RC oscillator with 1% component values, you get an error typical
1,5%.

I have a nice line of 2% caps in stock, but where do you get the elusive
(affordable) 1% capacitors?

You have undergrads select them. :-)

Cheers!
Rich

OR two capacitors in parallel. The support cap has a nominal value of 1/100
of the bigger cap. So you can tune the bigger.

- Henry


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On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:05:19 -0800, Winfield Hill wrote:

Henry Kiefer wrote...

I can buy resistors and capacitors with 5%, sometimes with 1%. If you
build a RC oscillator with 1% component values, you get an error
typical
1,5%.

I have a nice line of 2% caps in stock, but where do you get the
elusive
(affordable) 1% capacitors?

You have undergrads select them. :-)

Cheers!
Rich