Monday 14 October 2019

Butterfly capacitor


Yesterday I had the opportunity to see the making of a butterfly variable capacitor by Gerard, PA2G. This capacitor will be used in concert with a 1.7 meter diameter aluminium magnetic loop antenna. The great distances between the individual capacitor plates allow the use of high voltages (kV range) when the future antenna comes in resonance. I think, this is a nice example of good workmanship.





Speaking about nice mechanics; I added a locomotive to my train collection this weekend: A vintage Marklin DB electric loc Br E 41 (the blue version):



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