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Re: Caps

Regardles of what voltage ratings are on the caps I would doubt that they
would survive this kind of an AC application. Capacitor decade boxes are
meant for small-signal electronics debug and development work and contain
components designed for that type of service. Anytime you want to run
caps in a 60Hz power environment they had best be AC rated, like motor
start capacitors and so on. I suppose the small value caps in the box
will be OK but they are not of any real use to you anyway.

nvv

On Wed, 23 Nov 1994, Nikola Tesla wrote:

> >From sroys-at-Anchorage.ab.umd.edu Wed Nov 23 13:13 MST 1994
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> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 14:53:48 -0500
> From: sroys-at-Anchorage.ab.umd.edu
> To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
> Subject: Caps
> 
> I have an old "Industrial Instruments, INC" capacitance decade box that
> gives me a capacitance range from .001uF to 1.11uF (model DK2A) and I was
> wondering if anybody would know what voltage this would be rated for.  I 
> took it apart but I didn't see any ratings on the caps inside, and I was
> wondering if I could use this to "tune" my primary supply for power factor
> correction.  I don't want to hook it up to the 110V line and toast the caps
> if they can't take it.
> 
>