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Article #21533Re: HV Cap Fun!
From: Kenny Crudup
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 16:23
Date: Tue, 30 May 1989 16:23
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In article <7487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) says:
>I've always been very, very careful around capacitors ever since I
>discovered to my amazement that not only can they hold a charge for a
>long time, but also that: You can discharge some electrolytic
>capatitors, remove the short circuit, and after a few minutes the
>capacitor regains a smaller charge.
>Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Yup. They sure do. Its 'cause nature abhors a vacuum, and when you let
all the energy out, the caps pull electrons out of the air.
--
Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, Interactive Systems, Cambridge MA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!ima!haddock!kencr From: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun! Message-ID: <13485@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 30 May 89 16:23:04 GMT References: <4924@m2c.M2C.ORG> <3186@kitty.UUCP> <7487@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Reply-To: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge MA Lines: 16