Re: general cap questions and BIG Farad caps

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

> Interesting.  I'm glad you posted that.  I have seen
> the 1 farad caps for use in car amplifiers and
> wondered what exactly they were used for in those
> systems.  When I was a kid I had a toy airplane that
> you charged up with a battery for about 30 seconds or
> longer, and then let it go.  It would fly for a while
> using the charge stored in the capacitor.  I don't
> have the plane anymore, but I bet it utilized one of
> those large capacitance low voltage caps you speak of.

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