On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Mario Da costa wrote:
> essentially disconnected and hence safe. But go on ahead, open your
> hardware (no pun intended) and solder a capacitor with a C value small
> enough to pass your highest operating frequency (few 100 Khz for dial up
> telephone) but with a voltage rating of 2 million volts.
I saw some in our near by power station the 15ft ceramic things but they
can stand 440V only i guess. I guess we just have to scale it up a bit but
drastically decrease the capacitance :)
...just wondering if vacuum is the strongest dielectric. I guess even that
will fail.
Do mail and
> tell me the cost of such a capacitor if available and the look on the
> face of the electrical store sales-person when you ask him for such a
> capacitor.....
>
why expose him to a different source of shock all together ( yep intended
;)
> or you could just tie a few knots in the wire. better still unplug your
> hardware (no pun again) during a storm.
amen ;)
-- sreangsu
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