Cap Building Site

[raburgeson]

                                           
         http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/hv/hvcap/hvcap.html
                                     

[triffid]

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[Feynman]

Thanks.   I bet if you combine these homemade caps with some IGBT's you are ready for some serious high energy fun.  Beer not included.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGBT

Large IGBT modules typically consist of many devices in parallel and can have very high current handling capabilities in the order of hundreds of amps with blocking voltages of 6,000 V.

[Pirate88179]

Thanks for the link.  The only question I have is this:  When they talked about Farads, they mentioned every sub-order available except....Farads. (pico, micro...etc.)  The super caps I am playing with are measured in Farads like .22, 3, 5.5, etc.  So, I guess this article does not really cover super caps then?  My interest lies in the way super caps perform like a battery without dumping all of the charge at once.  I can charge one of my .22F super caps from my earth battery and light an led with it (after disconnecting from the charging source) for over two hours.  does anyone know how we can build super caps then?  Or, a way for regular caps that perform like a battery?  thanks.

Bill

[triffid]

A one farad capacitor is a huge capacitor.Use panes of glass to separate the sheets of metal and try to find online calculators to help you with the rest of the building.Mineral oil is said to be helpful too.triffid