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jim rozen wrote:

For those who are interested in the numbers, the
capacity between two cars is somewhere around 1000 pf
car-to-car.

Which means that any one car to ground is probably
something like 2000 pf or thereabouts.

Jim

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Back in the good old days we used to charge our cars up with a model T
spark coil and a groundwire. Until the charge wore off, anyone touching
a door handle would get quite a jolt.
Engineman1

And how long, pray tell was that, 1-1/2 minutes?

Jeff (Who remembers when fuel trucks used to drag grounding chains off
the rear. I believe today's tires are conductive enough to take care of
things like that.)

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