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Re: Building No-Nonsense Capacitors

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From: John Reilly
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 00:43
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Well I'm no EE type (CS), but when I was in high school (back when doing things like building
"real capacitors" was worth doing just to do it), I made 3 different killer capacitors.

	1. rubber cement foil to both sides of a sheet of glass (I used a large window pane).

	2. etch foil off edges of double sided circuit board (again I used the largest one I could buy).

	3. etch edges off several single (I used 6) single sided circuit boards then stack them
      and connect the alternating sides with foil. Clamp then as tight as possible.

Why did I do this? Well I had a 12,000V neon sign transformer, that just had to be played
with...

john reilly  | "When the only tool you have is a hammer, you
             | tend to treat everything as if it were a nail"
             | A. Maslow
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Subject: Re: Building No-Nonsense Capacitors
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