At 08:58 PM 3/6/98 +0100, you wrote:
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>Not that high! Today I«ve seen ranges from 220R (NEC 5,5V 0.047 F) down to
>only 0.08R (Elna 2,5V 50F)  
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>Yes, 50F!!  Almost like an accumualtor.  Exept the price...
>/Morgan
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>/  Morgan Olsson, MORGANS REGLERTEKNIK, SE-277 35 KIVIK, Sweden \
>\  mrt@iname.com, ph: +46 (0)414 70741; fax +46 (0)414 70331    /
>

BTW, how do these super caps achieve such high capacities? Are the plates
so much closer than older electrolytics or do they use some tremendously
good dialectric, or a combination of both? At 50F 2.5V, there would be a
whopping 125 coulombs of charge on each plate, an unheard of amount of
charge in usually physics, enough to suck a statically charged comb right
through a solid brick wall from several meters away, if it weren't for the
oppositely charged plate, that is. However, that dialectric must really be
something amazing, to lower the E field enough that the force between those
plates can be mechanically supported.

Sean

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