Farads (Was: IBM 029 progress

At 11:00 AM 6/9/2009 -0700, you wrote: Would a "thunder cloud" be considered a capacitor? If so, how many MF would lightning take? Was "capacitator" ever a valid name? I wonder if Al K has heard this story. When my good friend Don was still alive, he'd tell the story of working for a hospital many decades ago. He'd get calls from med techs and nurses about defibrillators that no longer worked. Some uncluefull person playing with them would stick the business end of the paddles together and rub them around, like he's seen on TV. Problem is, the uncluefull one would then bump the button that discharges the paddles. One time, when someone asked what was wrong with the unit, he mentioned that the big capacitor inside got blowed up when the paddles were discharged into a short circuit. Sure enough, next time she called and forever after, she'd say, Can you fix this defib? I think the cazapiter is fried again. -T ----- 865. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. --Ps 111:10 (NIV) --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters at nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB: http://www.mixweb.com/tpeters 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531