smallest 0603 cap

Thanks, Uwe,

Very nice. I confess that I wasn't aware of the whole precision picofarad capacitor niche--I can get 100 pF 1% NP0s for two cents in hundreds, hurrah.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Get your xacto knife & slice across a trace on the pc board.

Hul

John Lark> I need a tiny cap.

That's not very manufacturable.

Unknowable. Do you recall turret tuners, where each of a dozen channels' LC time constants were adjusted, in several places per channel, in mass production? That started out with handwork, but got automated, and... was actually pretty efficient.

Someone got clever and put an array of computer-controlled pistons to work squishing coils until they hit the target value.

The 'slice across' could be laser scan, or vibrating chisel, or platinum-spark-plug electrode doing spark erosion, if you want a manufacturable process. Maybe just a grinding wheel and a jig to present the right edge to the right feed depth, about as fast as applying an inspection stamp.

You beat me to it. It can be had with 10 fF tolerance. They are very repeatable. There is nothing quite like Accu-P. They can get expensive with the tight tolerance.

That was a trip. Accessing the German Mouser site from Puerto Rico. My choices are German or Spanish... I think!