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Article #21658Re: HV Cap Fun!
From: Mark Robert Thorson
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1989 00:03
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1989 00:03
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A friend of mine once worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he maintained a shed full of BIG capacitors used in energy experiments. These capacitors were about the size of a small oil drum. They would put little pill bottles on the capacitors. When they would hear one rattling, they'd dive for cover, as that was an indication a capacitor was about to short out (which would be followed by the capacitor bank dumping its energy into the failed capacitor).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun! Message-ID: <19084@cup.portal.com> Date: 3 Jun 89 00:03:18 GMT References: <4924@m2c.M2C.ORG> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 7