[sdiy] Hand-matching capacitors for filter stages

[John Mahoney]

At 06:56 PM 2/9/2010, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

>No, I didn't measure them. I just threw them away without a thought
>for their value to science! They were cheap brown ceramic discs that
>probably weren't that close to the advertised value when they went
>in, and certainly wouldn't have got any closer in the 20+ years they
>were in there. [snip]

Just because part A has a wider tolerance than part B doesn't 
necessarily mean than part A isn't as close (or closer) to the 
specifications as is part B, does it? I suppose it depends on the 
manufacturer's testing process.

John