Capacitor help needed
Hi people
after doing my usual on 'an auction site', i have ended up with 5 or 6 boxes (1.5' x 1.5' x 2' ) of capacitors all shapes and sizes, i bought in bulk because it was only a few quid more for these boxes full, than it was for the 30 or 40 caps i needed for my last project. I recon that i must have at least a few hundred thousand in total
Anyway, does anyone have any ideas for projects that involve lots of capacitors. something fun, and reasonably simple.
1) So far i have decided to make up a 2 or 3 Farad stiffining capacitor for my car audio by paralelling lots of my bigger caps, and adding a voltage display.
2) some kind of coil gun (it just has to be done)
Any other suggestions??
Other things i have in the kitty are boxes of resistors (every value imaginable) various PICs, a box of various logic chips, a few 555's, and various other random bits. so if you can think of anything i could make with this lot, please let me know, in the meantime im off to start building a big cap for my car audio.
Thanks
Weegee