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capacitor question
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From: Kevin Wahila [SMTP:wawa-at-spectra-dot-net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 9:09 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: capacitor question
At 07:58 AM 1/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From: Homer Lea [SMTP:HomerLea-at-aol-dot-com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 12:18 AM
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: capacitor question
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>instead of building a bunch of caps and stringing them in series to get a hv
>rating, why can't you just stack alternate aluminum and plastic sheets,
making
>connections to the outer two Al sheets only. it seems like this should give
>the same effect with a lot less construction involved.
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>jim heagy
you could do this, and just make multiple units and wire them in parallel
to bring up the capacitance, but in my case I'm making rolled caps