Re: Capacitor Donation

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Original poster: "K. C. Herrick" <kchdlh-at-juno-dot-com> 

Not all corporations have gone soul-less.  What a comforting thought!

Ken Herrick

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:02:24 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
 > Original poster: Koen van den Berg <cerberus_rex-at-planet.nl>
 >
 > It's great to see how generous total strangers can be when presented
 > with a
 > fun idea. I just received a shipment of 80(!) capacitors, rated for
 > 5.2 kV
 > and 35 uF, for free!
 > A while ago I wrote to General Atomics, asking them if they could
 > perhaps
 > sponsor me for my railgun project. Lo and behold, I received a reply
 > from
 > their head of R&D. After a few emails he agreed to give me the caps.
 > Only
 > problem was shipping, since I live in Holland and GA is in San
 > Diego. I
 > told him I was having trouble getting money for the shipping, and he
 >
 > replied saying that he would be going to Switzerland with one of his
 >
 > technicians, and wouldn't you know it, they could bring the boxes
 > along in
 > stead of luggage. How cool is that? He even got the company he was
 > visiting
 > to ship it to my school free of charge!
 > Anyway, besides the railgun I'm hoping to try some other experiments
 > with
 > the caps, anybody have any suggestions?
 >
 > Koen
 >
 >
 >