Re: Caps in Monitors

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Original poster: "torlin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <torlin-at-ghostmail-dot-net>

Sometimes you can find some smaller "doorknob" caps in the 
really old console TV sets.

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:01:03 -0600
  "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
>Original poster: "Gregg Adams by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <network-at-nexband-dot-com>
>
>Hey all,
>     Today I was scavenging any good parts out of a blown 
>monitor and found some
>interesting things.  I found some very large rectifiers 
>and some nice caps. 
>The caps seem to be made by "Teapo" and are 0.47uf -at- 
>275v.  What a shame these
>aren't rated at 2kv or so;~))  Any chance there would be 
>some large caps(2kv)
>in some monitors or tv's?  
>    Well it was exciting till I read the specs on the cap 
>:(
>  
>And on goes the quest for the cheaper cap!
>
>
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