It was just that they are dirt cheap and available.
I'll pony up for real ones.


JE

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:38:29 -0500, JE wrote:

It was just that they are dirt cheap and available.
I'll pony up for real ones.

JE

I'd go with try it first.

Also base collector junction of many transistors is fairly decent
varactor. Low power transistors tend to be low capacitance
and the amount of capacitance increases with device dies size
(power level).

Allison