Re: Capacitor Donation

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Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net> 

Shrink some quarters!  Thats like 40kJ of caps!

Regards - Jim Mitchell
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Subject: Re: Capacitor Donation


 > 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
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >