RE: Cap Experiments and more ?????

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: RE: Cap Experiments and more ?????
From: Mark Finnis <mefinnis-at-medicine.adelaide.edu.au> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:09:02 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 08:03 6/10/98 -0600, Michael Baumann wrote:
>> 
>> I am beginning to suspect that you cannot just "go and build" your own
>> capacitors.
>> 
>>
>Reinhard:
>Yes you can "go and build", just make sure to use the right formulas :)
>When you compute your capactiance, use a factor of 2.0 for the poly, and
>remmber that it's n-1 for a plate cap, and 2n for a rolled cap.
>
>[I computed the capactance of my two caps to be 0.006 and 0.0065 using
>the above guide.. I got 0.0066 and 0.0072.. not too far off.]

I would second this:

	Calculated:	0.05 uF
	Two units:	0.049 and 0.048 uF

Formulae as above.

Don't have a clue why yours are so far off the track Reinhard, but don't
give up that easily ......... we would lose respect ;-))

Cheers,


Mark

http://www.cobweb-dot-com.au/~dkfinnis