[sdiy] Hand-matching capacitors for filter stages

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 9 Feb 2010, at 16:27, Neil Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>> No, probably not. One of my motivations is actually that 5%
>> polypropylene caps are available in convenient 0.2" pitch boxes,
>> whereas the 1% polystyrenes are mostly available in a board-hogging
>> almost-20mm axial lead format. It might cost me some time, but it'd
>> save me money *and* PCB space.
>
> Have you seen the LCR range of polystyrene capacitors from  
> Farnell?  For example, order code 9520201.

Much better, but still twice as big. More of a problem is they don't  
have the 560pF value I need.

T.