Sorry Rob, I was a little on edge last night to begin with, then after
reading all the flames,
I started to overheat a little.  At any Rate, When I go out to the platform,
I will get the info
off the spool for everyone.  The Nice thing about this wire is, it seems to
last forever (a matter of speaking)
through some pretty rough conditions.

Richard Skinner
rwskinner@worldnet.att.net
http://home.att.net/~rwskinner

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> From: Rob Zitka <robzs@HICOM.NET>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT] Cable retained energy, was Super Caps
> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 10:24 PM
>
> At 09:22 PM 3/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
> Hey Richard, I didn't mean to ruffle your feathers.  I was just very
> curious to the phenomenon you saw.  As an engineer I like to try to
> understand what goes on.  I appreciate what you've told us.  If you decide
> to not respond that's fine.
>
> Rob
>
> >
> >Geez, I think Ryan was right about people being very agressive on the list
> >here.  I made a mistake to begin
> >with, I thought I posted to the stamp list, but mistakenly posted here.
If I
> >was making this crap up, I would
> >have bailed out when I had the chance?
> >
> >
> >Richard Skinner
> >rwskinner@worldnet.att.net
> >http://home.att.net/~rwskinner
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Reginald Neale <neale@SERVTECH.COM>
> >> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >> Subject: Re: [OT] Cable retained energy, was Super Caps
> >> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 4:08 PM
> >>
> >> Rob said:
> >>
> >> >I'm sorry I missed some of this discussion but I was wondering how he
> >> >proved t held a charge?  How did he charge it (voltage level, type of
> >> >instrument, lenght of time...etc)?  How did he show it held a charge
> >> >(voltmeter)?  How did he discharge it (short, resistor leak path)?
> >> >Where was the cable during the test (rolled, laid out..etc)?  Did he
show
> >> >the cable was at close to no voltage after discharge?
> >> >
> >> >I have heard of antenna wires showing charges, but this was because of
> >> >the natural EMF of the background.
> >> >
> >> >Just curious.
> >> >
> >> I too am curious about the the specs on this cable. As a reference, a
small
> >> camera flash stores about 5 joules of energy. That's enough to make some
> >> decent sparks, and more than enough to be dangerous. The formula for
> >> capacitive energy storage is [C*V^2]/2. As an earlier poster mentioned,
> >> RG-58 is approx 30pf/ft. When you do the math, you'd have to charge
about
> >> 666 ft to about 1KV (probably wouldn't handle that) or 66666 ft to 100V
to
> >> get 5 joules. That's 11 miles of cable. Or maybe this cable is something
> >> really exotic... always possible, given the eclectic nature of PicLister
> >> backgrounds.
> >>
> >> Reg Neale
> >
> >