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Re: Geek .15uF caps Was: "plate" capacitors



Original poster: "David Knaack by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dknaack-at-rdtech-dot-com>

> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
> Personally, I would go by RMS current vs. center temperature rise.  A
> hollow capacitor, sort of like a tube, should have much higher dissipation
> since the highly thermally insulated center is removed

Is the power handling primarily thermally limited?

DK