Re: "plate" capacitors

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

I still use the bucket caps for the occasional tinkering. And I plan on 
building a large glass plate cap. I already have about 400 pieces of glass 
in stock and it's a simple matter of giving them a good cleaning (I LOVE 
Simple Green, if you don't have any GET SOME!) and stacking them up. I think 
it's a great way to teach the concepts of capacitors and the blue glow is 
beautiful. Who cares if they're lossy. If I'm running the coil, I'm MMC all 
the way, bit there are applicaitons for the plate caps. They're a tool, like 
everything else :).


>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" 
><A123X-at-aol-dot-com>
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>Actually with those caps the Geek group is selling sound like they are 
>going
>to be very cheap anyway. I kinda like the fact that I actually built the 
>cap
>though. Seeing the result and thinking "I made that" isn't quite the same 
>to
>me as seeing the result and thinking "I bought that". I guess MMC's are 
>kinda
>half way though.
>
>In a message dated 4/17/01 8:45:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>writes:
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> >
> > If you rate the caps at $/MTBF (mean time between failures), or
> > total cost per year of service, rather than just initial dollars, I 
>don't
> > think the above statement is always true. Low cost, short-lived, high
> > maintenance items are seldom a bargain unless you are passing them off 
>to
> > someone else
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