On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:26:26 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
The boom might be quite impressive, as these are probably Marx generator
pulse discharge caps, and may have a current capacity of tens
of thousands of amps.

Yes, they say "DISCHARGE CAPACITOR" on the dataplate. They probably
were using them to power high power lasers. One of my acquaintainces
worked there on lasers at some point.

i