Re: ebay capacitor homemade

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi,

It looks like just a string of plain HV polyester caps in a PVC tube.  The 
polyester will fail in Tesla coil applications.  Probably cute for "some" 
high voltage stuff.  Bidding is $2.50 now so he may loose a few bucks ;-)

Cheers,

         Terry

At 06:18 PM 4/14/2004, you wrote:
><http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4660&item=3809895175&rd=1>http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4660&item=3809895175&rd=1
>
>saw this on ebay 2day. other than the fact that he is lying about the $500 
>thing(built a saltwater cap today, 14.06 nF total cost = 20 cents). The 
>fact that is poleyester also worries me. Has anyone purchased these b4 and 
>if so are they really as good as he claims?
>
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