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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: large capacitors -- low resistance??
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 18:45:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 18:45:55 1984
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> So it was with great expectation that we charged this thing up.  Got a piece
> of 16 gauge wire.  Taped it to a stick.  Sloowly approached the terminals
> with it ... and ... nothing happened.  Apparently these things have a fairly
> low internal resistance so they discharge shortly after the current is
> removed.  Sigh.

Maybe you didn't give it enough time to charge up?  Lets see... charging
with 1 volt thru 100 ohmns would take 100 seconds to charge to .63v in
a 1 F capacitor.