Re: "plate" capacitors

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

Actually with those caps the Geek group is selling sound like they are going 
to be very cheap anyway. I kinda like the fact that I actually built the cap 
though. Seeing the result and thinking "I made that" isn't quite the same to 
me as seeing the result and thinking "I bought that". I guess MMC's are kinda 
half way though. 

In a message dated 4/17/01 8:45:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> If you rate the caps at $/MTBF (mean time between failures), or 
> total cost per year of service, rather than just initial dollars, I don't 
> think the above statement is always true. Low cost, short-lived, high 
> maintenance items are seldom a bargain unless you are passing them off to 
> someone else