bitrex wrote:
On 06/08/2017 01:39 PM, Winfield Hill wrote:
Cursitor Doom wrote...

I tore down a Marconi signal generator today. ...
faulty smoothing cap in the PSU .. GBP280.

I have a 280-pound capacitor, four of them in fact.
Well, they must weigh something in that vicinity.
They cost $500 each, including pallet shipping.

The physically largest capacitor I ever saw in person was a PIO type
rated IIRC for a couple of uF at several kV; it weighed about as much as
a bowling ball and was about the same size


Our 170 pound energy discharge capacitors, each 70 uF at 12 kVDC:
http://capturedlightning.com/photos/...ps/MAXCAP3.JPG