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From: Mike & Linda Frankl mlfrankl@***.com
Subject: Electro-Magnetic Pulse Questions
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:10:09 -0400
Oliver sayeth:
> Or you can discharge a megafarad capacitor through a kilohenry
> coil. The only problem is that a megafarad capacitor would
> be about the size of Alberta (or 1/3 to 1/2 of Texas).

We use a 1F (Farad) cap in a product for a battery back up. It's about the
size of 5 quarters stacked. If you took 1 million of them (in parallel) and
with an acceptable working voltage it would probably only be the size of a
large building (or maybe even less if really well planned) and you could get
your megaFarad cap.

;)

Smilin' Jack

Franklin Isshinryu School of Karate
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/RallyRd/mlfrankl/fiskhome.htm

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