At 10:57 PM 6/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Back when I was in high school, when a 1 farad capacitor would have
>been, physically, huge (probably about the size of an RS store, or
>something like that),
For the terminally curious, a photo of a 1 farad capacitor mounted on
a circuit board can be found at
http://www.decodesystems.com/help-wanted/index.html#download
> one could telephone a RS store and ask for a 100
>farad, 1KV, capacitor and the sales clerk would say "I'll check to see
>if we have any."
Gullibility aside, most of the RS clerks I run into these days are intimidated
if you appear to know _anything_ about components. Once they realize that
you actually know what all those little parts are used for they usually wander
off. Of course, as previously noted here, it may also be that they realize
they're not going to make much of a commission on you.
Cheers,
Dan
http://www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html
Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 22:21:35 BST