Comment on 3D printed motorized variable capacitor, butterfly-trombone hybrid (also question on dielectric losses in capacitors)

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fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

i was thinking more like, thin external plastic shell and empty cells inside, perhaps with another thin plastic shell on inside, and internal metal shell (on plastic support?) fitting in snugly, for mechanical stability, idk 3dprinting

keeping leads short and nonmagnetic (dramatic reduction in skin layer depth) would be a good thing because of losses, but the longest object in capacitor would be just capacitor plates, and either way in wavelength terms it’s rather small. more precisely you can model it as open transmission line stub with some weird and low impedance, but it’s so small that you don’t have to

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