Re: Possibly dangerous auction

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/15/02 10:20:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

<< Hi All, 
 The following eBay Items look to me like electrolytic caps. If so, and he is
 advertising them for Tesla coil use, he's selling something which may well 
blow
 up in the recipients' face first time it's used. 
 Tesla coil capacitors 400v 220uf NEW 40,000v Item # 1721890101 
        Can anyone tell for sure what they are? 
 Would it be ethical to warn buyers? seller? eBay? All of above?
 Thanks,
 Matt D.
  >>

Hi Matt, all,

Electrolytics are certainly what they look like to me! 
So please don't anybody series 100 of these together
and think that you have a 40 kV Tesla cap :-l

Spark Afely,
David Rieben
Memphis, TN, USA