Re: Camera Caps (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Camera Caps (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:28:20 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:13:13 -0800 (PST)
From: gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Camera Caps

I have about 100 or so of these.  The camera store will give you all you
want if you just ask.  I got 2 large grocery bags full free.  About 50% of
the caps are not marked and the others are all 160 uf 330 volts and 160 uf
350 volts.  Some of the Fugi unit have smaller caps with no marked values. 

Gary Weaver




>>Not to pick nits here, Jim, but I have a hard time believing that those
>>little
>>cameras store 20 joules.  Even if the cap was 200uF at 200VDC, (small
>>for a 
>>photoflash cap, but larger than what I remember seeing in the dozen or
>>so
>>disposable strobes I've got lying about somewhere) you'd only get 4J.
>>
>>Out of curiosity, does anyone have one of them handy to read off some
>>values?
>>
>
>Gomez,
>
>	160uF -at- 330V -> 8.7J  I've a dozen on my bench waiting for a
>roundtoit before I can put them into a bouncing ghost effect.
>
>	chills,
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>	jim 
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