gold capacitors contain no gold

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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Bernhard Kuemel
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kind of reminds me of monster speaker wire.

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Jamie

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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Tim Williams

REMINDS ME OF NASA'S "ZERO GRAVITY MARKETING A FEW YEARS BACK... THERE IS NOT ZERO GRAVITY AT THE SPACE STATION EUTHER..

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Marc Popek

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