Re: condensors

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

WHEN I FIRST WENT TO RADIO SCHOOL THE ARMY TAUGHT THAT ELECTRONS CONDENSED
ON THE PLATES OF A CONDENCER AND EVAPORATED BACK INTO THE WIRES WHEN
PRESSURE (VOLTS) DROPPED.
  ROBERT  H.

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:59:52 -0600
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> Subject: Re: condensors
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> In a message dated 4/11/02 10:20:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
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>> 
>> I'm now trying to work out where the term condensor came from -
>> 
>> capacitor makes sense (something that has capacity); I wonder whether
>> condensor comes to us from the age of steam?
>> 
> 
> 
> Hi Matt S., All,
> Back when electricity was thought by the general public to be a
> special kind of fluid, these were seen as devices for storing the current;
> "condensing"  it into a small volume, if you will. In the automotive world,
> they are still occasionally referred to as condensers by "senior"
> practitioners, who remember pre-electronic ignition when you checked coil,
> points, and condenser. I once heard an old-time mechanic explain to a
customer
> that it condensed the electrical noise out of the engine so it wouldn't get
> into the radio. When it got filled up with noise, she'd hear the ignition in
> the radio and then she'd need a new condenser, just like changing an oil
> filter. Dead wrong, but a lot easier for the scientifically uneducated to
> explain to the scientifically uneducated.
> 
> Matt D.
> G3-1085
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