Re: capductor or incapacitator or something (OLTC idea...)

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "Wells Campbell by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <wellscampbell-at-onebox-dot-com>
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> well, I got to thinking, what if you could make a cap that had about
> the inducance of a primary, wrapped around a tube which would go around
> the secondary and serve as both the primary and cap in one unit-I think
> I called it a capductor or incapacitator or something, and got some copper
> foil and twisted one up.

I remember seing this device described and analyzed in a paper years
ago when I was researching old IEEE journals. Probably something from
the 1940's or 1950's. I can't locate the source now, however.
A curious device. It's a rolled plate capacitor where the parasitic
inductance is put to use.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz