Re: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY

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Original poster: Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 10/3/03 6:42:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

At 03:47 PM 10/3/2003 -0600, you wrote:
 >Original poster: John <fireba8104-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >I have a 0.004F cap rated at 4000VAC (32,000 jolues) that is only a bit
 >smaller than my simpson 260 multimeter.

That's 32 millijoules, not 32kJ... .004 * 4*4/2 = 32E-3...

Look again. he said 0.004F NOT .004 uF! If he's right, your calculation is 
off by 10e6

Matt D.