Re: huge capicator

["D.Wightman" <dwightman-at-mmcable-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

go to radio shack and ask them to use their multi meter to test your
cap...you will have to set the meter to capacitance...they have them, i
bought one from them recently ..all you do is put the 2 test leads from the
multimeter on to the 2 terminals of the cap and read the meter..


-----Original Message-----
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Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:12 AM
Subject: huge capicator


>Original poster: DANIMAL799-at-aol-dot-com
>
>i recently bought a huge (7 lb)  capicator  rated at 90mf from an
electronics
>surplus store but i am unable to test it.  my limited powersupply consists
of
>4 mot's.  i can't run them all at once because they trip the circut breaker
>in my apartment.  is there a way that i can use them and maybe a spark gap
>to test this huge cap??   how would i hook something like this up and how
>long should i try to charge it ?  how much of a gap should i leave on the
>spark gap?
>also does anyone know a way to get the 10,000 volts out of the 4, 2500 volt
>mot's??without popping the breakers??   i have heard of using a "voltage
>doubler"  hooked in series to 2 mot's.  where can i get one of
hese/??  -dan
>
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