Re: Newark ebay capacitor: primary tank capacitor?

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Original poster: "Crow Leader" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net> 

Possibly bypass RF, not handle large currents of it. These caps are still a
bad choice for a tesla coil tank circuit.

KEN

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 > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 >
 > alright, but these are designed to absorb RF energy in the since of
 > "filtering" I beleive. So it might work. I guess testing will be the
answer.
 > Thanks for the conversionary helps and the radio shack tip goes without
 > saying.
 >
 > ---Eric
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 > Subject: Re: Newark ebay capacitor: primary tank capacitor?
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: John <fireba8104-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  > Nope, I believe it's a filter cap.I see tons of these advertised as
such.
 > I
 >  > made the same mistake with radio shack caps(DON'T TRUST RADIO SHACK
 >  > EMPLOYEES! THEY DON"T HAVE A CLUE!).
 >  > Milli to micro -- Milli *1000
 >  > micro to nano -- micro* 1000
 >  > nano to pico -- nano*1000
 >  >
 >  > pico to micro -- pico/1000000 ( 1000^2)
 >  >
 >  > see a pattern
 >  >
 >  > Testing outlets with my finger in N.J.
 >  > John
 >  >
 >  > Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 >  > Original poster: "Hydrogen18"
 >  >
 >  >
 >
http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2597989262&category=4662
 >  >
 >  > could that capacitor(in series obviously) handle the stresses of
primary
 >  > tank capacitor duties? Also, can some1 point me to reference so I can
 >  > convert uf to nf, pf and uf, and so on? I know 10^-9 is nano and 10^-6
is
 >  > micro but that doesnt mean much to a mid class geometry student.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
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