Re: TI-H: 0.1 capticitor

Subject: Re: TI-H: 0.1 capticitor
From: Mel Tsai <tsaimelv@pilot.msu.edu>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 00:46:28 GMT
In-Reply-To: <30A1294D.D0@inil.com>

>> I'm new to this mailing list, and this is the first time I've posted
>> anything on this one.  For your information I'm a geeky,
>> fourteen-year-old, farm boy who owns a TI-85.  I only know one other
>> TI-85 owner personally.  But anyhow, I posted this because in a Mouser
>> Electronics catalog (available free @ http//www.mouser.com)I found a =
0.1
>> p, or whatever that symbol is, capticitor.  Instead of using a 1 p
>> capticitor to speed up my calc I was wondering if I could use the 0.1 =
p
>> to speed up my calc even more.




There's no such thing as a 0.1 pF capacitor, as random noise will
totally offset any capacitor that small.  The only way to get
something like that is thorugh a trimmer capacitor, in which you can
make the speed of the calculator variable.


-Mel


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