gold capacitors contain no gold
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Bernhard Kuemel
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:35 am    Post subject: gold capacitors contain no gold Reply with quote
Hi sec!

I thought gold caps achieved their remarkable capacity through the
use of thin gold foil but it turned out they rather use activated
charcoal with electrolyte. Why are they called gold caps then? Are
there capacitors utilizing gold foil?

First I thought the long run of gold foil was responsible for the
high internal resistance and thought they could make a connection
every few turns.

Bernhard

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Jamie
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:35 am    Post subject: Re: gold capacitors contain no gold Reply with quote
kind of reminds me of monster speaker wire.

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http://webpages.charter.net/jamie_5
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Tim Williams
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:35 am    Post subject: Re: gold capacitors contain no gold Reply with quote
If you want gold in your caps (or any other resistive foil more expensive
than aluminum), you'll have to check out Audiophool products. $20 for a
0.22uF film cap, anyone? Hand wound so you *know* it's solid!

Tim

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Marc Popek
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:35 pm    Post subject: Re: gold capacitors contain no gold Reply with quote
REMINDS ME OF NASA'S "ZERO GRAVITY MARKETING A FEW YEARS BACK... THERE IS
NOT ZERO GRAVITY AT THE SPACE STATION EUTHER..

Marco
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