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From: waynekn@tekig.UUCP (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: Big Capacitors
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 11:13:10 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 11:13:10 1984
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> I heard a rummer which I am not quite ready to believe.
> Someone said a company somewhere makes a 1 farad capacitor.
> It fits in the hand and costs $10.
> I took electrical engineering once, 
> and micro farad capacitors were substantial.
> How can this be??!!

Yes, your heard right. There are 1 farad capacitors.  In fact, there are
3.3 farad capacitors.  They are only suitable for such things as memory
backup and the like because they have a high internal resistance.  That 
is the trade-off that alows such a high capacitance.  They are also low
voltage (5-6.3V).  Also, if you heard a *rummer* it probably wasn't in
electrical engineering.  They spell it *rumor*.  A rummer is " a large
drinking cup or glass" which has little to do with capacitors unless it
is a glass dielectric capacitor which would not be one farad.

By the way, this was not written by the above named person (Wayne).  He
can't spell rumor either. 

John Blankenagel

tekig!johnbl