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Re[2]: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY



Original poster: Mike Poulton <mpoulton@mtptech.com> 

Mike Poulton Wrote:
 > Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>

 > At 03:47 PM 10/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
 >>Original poster: John <fireba8104@yahoo.com>
 >>I have a 0.004F cap rated at 4000VAC (32,000 jolues) that is only a bit
 >>smaller than my simpson 260 multimeter.

 > That's 32 millijoules, not 32kJ... .004 * 4*4/2 = 32E-3...

The lack of a "u" before the "F" there was apparently intentional.  A
0.004 farad capacitor at 4kV is 32kJ indeed.


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Mike Poulton
MTP Technologies
mpoulton@mtptech.com
KC0LLX (70cm AM ATV, 33cm/12cm FM ATV, Omaha, NE)