Re: large caps

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Original poster: "Area31 Research Facility by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <rwstephens-at-hurontario-dot-net>

This capacitor on ebay is NOT a large capacitor suitable for coin shrinking. 
It is NOT 15000VDC, it is only 1500 VDC.  It would likely be suitable as a PFC
capacitor however for a 220 VAC circuit.
 
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:27
> Subject: Re: large caps
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> Original poster: "Matt Skidmore by way of Terry Fritz
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> >Which is one big cap! Suitable for quarter shrinking, disk tossing, water 
> spark gaps, wire exploding....lots of cool stuff. But aside from the
> obvious 
> danger from high voltage, it will discharge like a bomb if you let it. No 
> joke
>
> i was really hoping it  would be suitable. oh well. i found it on ebay for
> $20
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> <http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1201152429>http://
> cgi.ebay-dot-com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1201152429
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