On 9 Nov 2003 at 19:28, David Hobby wrote: > David Hobby wrote: > > > > Andrew Crystall wrote: > > ... > > > > Look, I don't want PLANS! I just don't believe you > > > > made it, and you've done nothing to dispel this. > > > > How about 20 questions? > > > > > > > > 1) Did it use an explosion? > > > > > > A capacitor. Which expoded once when I was test firing it. > > > This design flaw fortunately was kinda-antipated and it missed me. > ... > > A good thing it did. Big capacitors can store a lot > > of energy. So all I need to do is pick up a 100KV, 20 Farad > > capacitor, from that war surplus store by Area 51... > > > > ---David > > Funny, I can't even find the building anymore. Now > where am I going to get all my experimental supplies? > So it sounds like we need to scale back the size of > the capacitor some. I googled a bit, and found an archived > exchange at: > > http://yarchive.net/metal/large_capacitors.html > > I've snipped it some, but this seems to be about what you > can get.
Grin. This is why I settled for a range of approximately one meter :P Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
