[time-nuts] Making a HP 10811 better

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Wed Mar 31 00:14:14 UTC 2010


Hi

It still acts as a sponge, only more slowly. Think of all the time it spends powered off over the years. 

The downside of the "nice warm place" is that the megaohm microfarad product drops considerably from the room temp numbers. 

Bob


On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Hal Murray wrote:

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>> Then if you just happen to have dust / dirt / humidity / spider webs ...
>> there goes your 400 Meg. Humidity in particular is nasty. It goes in easily
>> and it's very hard to drive out.  
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> But this particular capacitor is stored in a nice warm place.  How much of 
> the humidity troubles does that avoid?
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