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The 280 pound capacitor
Tim Williams wrote:
"Bert Hickman" wrote in message
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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
I've worked with capacitors bigger than that, although I think they were in
sections so maybe it's not technically true to say "bigger capacitor"
(singular). :^) Ratings were around 100s uF, 2000V, lots of amps.
Tim
66 uF, 276 kV, 3000 A
but that was an aggregation of multiple cans.
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