Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: net.analog Subject: Re: large capacitors -- low resistance?? Message-ID: <316@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 18:45:55 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.316 Posted: Mon Dec 3 18:45:55 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 03:38:58 EST References: <17@tekig5.UUCP> Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA Lines: 10 > 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.