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Re: Carrying a Full Load (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:41:14 EDT
From: Alfred A Skrocki <alfred.skrocki.sr-at-juno-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Carrying a Full Load (fwd)
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 09:01:53 -0700 Bill Noble
<william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com> wrote;
>if you re-read your response, you will see a contradiction. If the
>item is not a diode, and there is no diode in the circuit, then it would
be
>impossible for it to be a capacitor that charges up in more than one
>half cycle (e.g. 7 ms). I haven't taken the time to look up what it is,
>but an ohmmeter will tell you if it's a MOV or a diode (just beware that
the
>foward drop of a HV diode is several volts - maybe more than 10 V- so
you may
>need to put a higher voltage across it than the usual ohmmeter
You are right in that I should have said the capacitor gets charged for
about 1/120 of a second and NOT several seconds! BUT I do asure you that
the device in the "bug-zaper" is
a capacitor, I should know, I've replaced enough of them restoring
discarded "bug-zapers"
Alfred A. Skrocki
Alfred.Skrocki.Sr-at-JUNO-dot-com
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