[Heath] Replacement Caps

[Bill Cromwell]

Just like driving your car. Keep it somewhere between the ditches and if 
you can, keep it between the lane lines - somewhere.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 02/01/2018 11:19 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2018 at 15:39, Glen Zook wrote:
>
>> Remember, "modern" capacitance values are not always the same, exact, values
>> as the original values.  Modern values follow the same tolerance system as
>> resistors.  For example, 2 mfd are now 2.2 mfd, 3 mfd are now 3.3 mfd, 5 mfd are
>> now 4.7 mfd, and so forth.  It is the same with the smaller values.
>
> Furthermore, with regard to electrolytics, as I remember it the tolerances on those was
> something like -20% +100%, so I've never particularly worried about using an "exact"
> replacement value for those.
>
> Ken W7EKB

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