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Old 06-03-2006, 09:23 PM
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The plastic cam is the dielectric in the capacitor formed by the wire and post coming from the LO. As the amount of plastic (or phenolic) in between the post and chassis ground varies, the amount of capacitance to ground varies. It only takes a handfull of picofarads to do the job.
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