Howdy Boyos!
Just read through all 32 pages.
Wow... and I thought us droid builders were obsessive!
Some really beautiful work here, both detective, and craftsman wise.
As usual, not only am I late to the party, but all I'm bringing to the table is the equivalent of a warm bottle of Diet Mtn Dew.
SSkunky posted a pic on... I dunno, page 15 maybe, of this thread waaaay back when folks still seemed to care about the mysterious K that appeared on some part label. For the life of me I can't get the original images to load, but he found these different capacitors with a K and I read through the rest of the I thread expecting someone else to chime in with something I think is rather obvious. My guess is that no one jumped on it because the Metalmite caps were deemed 'close-as-we're-ever-gonna-get' before playfulwolfcub among others began to fashion their own dummy caps.
However In the interest of the phrase "All knowledge is learning and therefore good." I wanted to shovel my two republi-credits at you.
The K on the caps in SSkunkys pics stands for Kilohertz.
Note the KH is part of the printed label and the Z115582 is hot stamped on later no doubt after the caps had been tested and passed whatever (QC) Quality Control inspections the manufacturer required.
115,582 KHz (or 115MHz) is just above the top end of the FM radio band which really stops at about 110,000KHz. (0.1 Ghz) Which means this cap is better suited to radio (or possibly TV) equipment and NOT radar. Too high for early coastal systems, and too low for later systems.
Granted it still remains to be seen what is the frequency of the correct Metal Mite and/or Metal Pack capacitors.
A little history. The earliest radar systems (coastal early warning) ran from 3 MHz to 30 MHz for HF band.
UHF band (yes, like the crappy TV stations) operated from 300MHz to 1000MHz. Later systems jumped to 1GHz for WWII era and powered up to 10 GHz in the early 60's, which is probably the most recent military surplus the people making Star Wars were likely able to purchase on the cheap.
Modern radar modern currently runs up to about 40 GHz, and just to tweak the conspiracy minded I'll add that at 10GHz and higher you can pretty much see through walls.
I don't expect any of this to be much help at this point, but you never know.
Howdy Boyos! Just read through all 32 pages. Wow... and I thought us droid builders were obsessive! Some really beautiful work here, both detective, and craftsman wise. As usual, not only am I late to the party, but all I'm bringing to the table is the equivalent of a warm bottle of Diet Mtn Dew. SSkunky posted a pic on... I dunno, page 15 maybe, of this thread waaaay back when folks still seemed to care about the mysterious K that appeared on some part label. For the life of me I can't get the original images to load, but he found these different capacitors with a K and I read through the rest of the I thread expecting someone else to chime in with something I think is rather obvious. My guess is that no one jumped on it because the Metalmite caps were deemed 'close-as-we're-ever-gonna-get' before playfulwolfcub among others began to fashion their own dummy caps. However In the interest of the phrase "All knowledge is learning and therefore good." I wanted to shovel my two republi-credits at you. The K on the caps in SSkunkys pics stands for Kilohertz. Note the KH is part of the printed label and the Z115582 is hot stamped on later no doubt after the caps had been tested and passed whatever (QC) Quality Control inspections the manufacturer required. 115,582 KHz (or 115MHz) is just above the top end of the FM radio band which really stops at about 110,000KHz. (0.1 Ghz) Which means this cap is better suited to radio (or possibly TV) equipment and NOT radar. Too high for early coastal systems, and too low for later systems. Granted it still remains to be seen what is the frequency of the correct Metal Mite and/or Metal Pack capacitors. A little history. The earliest radar systems (coastal early warning) ran from 3 MHz to 30 MHz for HF band. UHF band (yes, like the crappy TV stations) operated from 300MHz to 1000MHz. Later systems jumped to 1GHz for WWII era and powered up to 10 GHz in the early 60's, which is probably the most recent military surplus the people making Star Wars were likely able to purchase on the cheap. Modern radar modern currently runs up to about 40 GHz, and just to tweak the conspiracy minded I'll add that at 10GHz and higher you can pretty much see through walls. I don't expect any of this to be much help at this point, but you never know.