Draw construction of PVC gang capacitor and describe it’s working.

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 In plastic core capacitor, poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) type of plastic film is used as dielectric between the fixed & movable vanes instead of air. This increases the dielectric constant of the capacitor & results in great reduction of size of capacitor in comparison with the air core capacitor.

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