Re: Are metal oxide resistors non-inductive?

"John Larkin" "Phil Allison"

A pure capacitor, below the 1/4 wave frequency.

Here's a TDR of this cap:

Makes the " 1/4 wave stub " frequency about 250 MHz.

IOW - way above the self resonant frequency of the same cap.

..... Phil

You can just see the ends of the wrapped foil in the second pic, and easily see the spiral ends of the body. Trust me, the foil ends are not connected along their edges.

It's a transmission line. And to a 25 picosecond TDR step, it's not short.

Well, in the time domain it's a transmission line. Which is why it looks like 5.7 ohms for the first nanosecond, and *then* it starts to charge up like a capacitor.

We're probably seeing the round trip as about 1 ns, at maybe 3/4 c, so that makes it 4 or maybe 5 inches.

The ringing along the charging slope is about 300 MHz. I probably could have made the leads a little shorter, but the way I soldered it is about how an axial cap like this would be mounted on a PC board.

Pretty good cap.

John

"John Larkin"

The cap's ESR is not 5.7 ohms either.

And none of this has any relevance to my post.

.... Phil

The part that's relevant to your post was the fact that you said that

which clearly isn't so.

TDR is an easy way to test film caps and infer their internal structure.

This is interesting, different ways to terminate a transmission line...

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foilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoil LEAD LEAD

or

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foilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoil LEAD LEAD

or

LEAD LEAD foilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoil

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foilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoilfoil LEAD LEAD

all of which will have different high-speed behavior. My polystyrene cap seem to be the middle of the three.

John

I also thought of polystyrene caps as an obvious example on non-extended foil construction. I don't have a TDR but I do have an LCR meter than can go up to 5 MHz and a network analyzer for up to 3.6 GHz.

There is another type of cap that definitely has non-extended foil construction, which is a low cost mylar. See the lower image, type EIL here:

I have a vendor's assortment of those from years ago. I'm going to make some measurements to see if I can detect a difference.

It would be interesting if you would do a TDR measurement on some caps known to be extended foil construction, such as stacked mylar film, or perhaps silver mics and post the results.

Do you have any larger polystyrenes? A comparison of various types but of the same capacitance would be instructive.

These Caddock resistors are flat to about 6 GHz. An Agilent 54006A scope probe is just one of these and some SMA stuff. I think thay want about $3K for it.

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Caddock_450.JPG

John

"John Larkin"

No, John Larkin, polite contributor to newsgroup. Phil Allison, impolite twit.

Tom Jones, troll baiter.

Hope This Helps! Rich

You alway snip the parts that are true.

John

When he's not foaming and swearing, he can be helpful. Even nice. Bad chemistry, likely.

John

It would be a very lonely world for Phil if he didn't snip!

P.S.

I've had Phil on my black list for a while now, I don't miss him! ;)

Jamie

When is that? Ok, I may have seen it once.

Bad apple.