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From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: Big Capacitors
Message-ID: <267@bragvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 16:31:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 16:31:19 1984
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In article <6171@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) writes:
>> Try a battery!  Your car probably has an electrolytic capacitor
>> consisting of a liquid electrolyte and lead plates...many Farads, I
>> think.  A small ni-cad is probably good for a few Farads, too.  Not
>> much bigger than some much smaller capacitors!
>
>Batteries are not capacitors, asshole.  Maybe they should limit submissions
>to this list to people who know something about electricity.  DC does not
>flow through capacitors.

Talk about assholes!  The original discussion was about "super-caps",
and quite a bit of DC will flow through one (especially when warm).
Nicads are actually a good replacement for super-caps in most filter
applications-- cheaper and more readily available, much higher
(effective) capacitance, but somewhat less reliable.
-- 
David DiGiacomo, BRAG Systems Inc., San Mateo CA  (415) 342-3963
(...decvax!ucbvax!hplabs!bragvax!david)