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Re: Broadcast Capacitors
Subject:
Re: Broadcast Capacitors
Date:
Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:07:48 -0500
From:
"Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com>
To:
Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 07:09:08 -0600
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Broadcast Capacitors
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject:
> Re: Broadcast Capacitors
> Date:
> Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:26:32 +1200
> From:
> "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> Organization:
> Wellington Polytechnic, NZ
> To:
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>
>
> Mark, Robert et al,
> Thanks for the input on the caps.....
>
> > These sound like mica capacitors and will work extremely well in the
> > tank circuit of a vac tube T.C. as well as RF bypass for the plate
> > transformer. They can also be used for the system cap in disruptive
> > discharge T.C.'s if you series parallel a whole whack of them. I did
> > this. I took 30 units of 0.002 mfd -at-12,500 volt peak broadcast
> > micas and arranged them in three groups of ten paralleled in series.
> > The net result is about 0.007 mfd at 37,500 peak and is employed in
> > my highly successful STC system using a single 15 k -at- 60 Ma neon.
> > I've achieved straight line discharges to 52 inches with this coil.
> >
> > If these are cheap enough, BUY THEM!!!!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > rwstephens
>
> You're going to hate me but I was actually given them. There must be
> around 30 or so of about 5 different values in the carton.
>
> Regards all,
> Malcolm
Malcolm,
Nah, I don't hate you.......yet. If you ever get as lucky as Richard
Hull has been at hamfests bringing home truckloads of Keithley this
and government surplus EMP that for *only* ten dollars, and start
waving it in our faces so we all turn green with envy, then I'll hate
you. : )
rwstephens