Capacitance

Enter the offset capacitance in farads.  This capacitance is in parallel with the stray capacitance that exists between the shield termination conductor and the ground plane.  The entered value is added to the calculated capacitance of the selected termination model.  The offset capacitance may be a correction to the calculated stray capacitance or it may be the value of a capacitor placed between the end of the shield and ground in parallel with the shield termination conductor.  The offset capacitance value may be negative, but the sum of the calculated capacitance and the offset capacitance may not be less than zero.

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