Re: doorknob capacitor

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: doorknob capacitor
• From: RODERICK MAXWELL <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
• Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:46:22 -0500

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From jim.fosse-at-bdt-dot-comWed Aug 28 22:37:12 1996
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 03:23:11 GMT
> From: Jim Fosse <jim.fosse-at-bdt-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: doorknob capacitor
> 
> On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:00:05 -0600, Tesla List
> <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>, you wrote:
> 
> >>From major-at-vicksburg-dot-comTue Aug 27 22:57:34 1996
> >Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:26:23 -0500
> >From: RODERICK MAXWELL <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: doorknob capacitor
> >
> >I have a sprague 30 KVDC capacitor at 4700 picofarads. I don't want to
> >use it in the tank circuit but I wonder if it would hold up as a bypass
> >cap?
> >  Could any of you brave souls help me out?
> >
> It will draw 26.58 ma at 15kV (60Hz). That's fine for a pig, but a
> little high for a neon. P = 399VA
> 
> Z= 1/ (2 * pi * f * C);  I = V / Z.
> 
>         jim


            pi=3.14159
            
            f=60

            c=.0047

            z= 1/ (2*pi*f*c)

            z= 0.564


            v=15,000

            I=v/z

            I=26577.851

    Decimal points where??????

• Prev: Re: Brush spark gaps
• Next: Coil form
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread