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Originally Posted by Gina Vampire View Post
So far as antenna touching overheads I guess the best advice is dont!! Not sure a big capacitor being an AC low impedance device would offer much by way of insurance.



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Yes because of the small microfarad value of that capacitor , the reactance and impedance would be relatively low at 50 hertz . From memory the reactance lowers as the freq. is increased , the opposite to inductance where the reactance increases with freq.
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