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Re: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY
Original poster: Crow Leader <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> Surplus capacitors like this, of uncertain provenance, from catalog dealers
> (e.g. C&H sales) run a few hundred dollars at most. For instance,
> Alltronics (up in the Bay Area) has some Aerovox PX15QD58 caps 7.14 uF-at-50kV
> for $295 each. That's 9kJ. The picture looks like it's a bit ratty (like
> it's been sitting on a wooden pallet or wrapped in plastic. A Sangamo 14 uF
Interesting. I apparently have two of these Aerovox caps, though not from
this dealer. They were $75 each from ebay as I recall. They are made in
1980 and 1981, all paper construction, the high voltage terminals are
crumbly but seem to have survived a few dozen shots. Mine arrived with no
grey lacquer left at all (rusty), but it's no big deal. I have no way to
know if they are used, or old stock.
Modern equivalents are about half the size/weight from what I gather.
KEN