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To: blackdog
Resistors and capacitors manufactured to within plus or minus .0002% are not exactly easy to come by. Commercial stuff is plus or minus 5%, and military spec stuff is plus or minus 2%.

Sorry, but this can easily be accomplished. Purchase a large enough lot and do it by selection of matched components rather than by manufacture to a particular spec.

105 posted on 03/21/2004 5:53:11 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave
I used to make stuff for the industry. The problem is the performance at temperatures and under pressures over time.

I used to match components as part of the building spec process. Quite the paper trail too. I used to do the hot oil immersion, nitrogen dip, impact tables, shock & vibe, and so on......

Perfect matching is easy on the bench, but not so in a variable environment.

I used to custom wind my own metalized film capacitors for just this reason.

109 posted on 03/21/2004 7:16:51 PM PST by blackdog (I feed the sheep the coyotes eat)
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To: CurlyDave
Purchase a large enough lot and do it by selection of matched components

That won't get you components that stay within the fine tolerance over time, under different temperatures and pressures, etc.

148 posted on 03/22/2004 9:29:33 AM PST by steve-b
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