Hello, i would like to know what the biggest high voltage capacitor anyone has seen, or who owns the biggest high voltage capacitor and what they use them for?
3.6KF is very large, i have 2 x 50F 2.3V capacitors myself, they were a bargain at £2.99 each. 3.6KF @2.5V is 11250 Joules (if my calculations are correct!?)
yeah, the energy storage is about right. It's definitely humbling to feed a couple amps into a capacitor and watch the voltage climb - a couple mV/sec. Then realize that this thing has a time constant of about a second... At which point the thing got discharged(through a nice hefty resistor), and was stuck in the parts bin with it's shorting wire in place.
The two 50F capacitors that i have hold far less than yours but if shorted across some hefty wire or a screwdriver the wire or screwdriver will heat up nicely
have you got any high voltage high capacitance??
i have made a coilgun recently and thought of this thread for inspiration as too what capacitors can be sourced.
currently i am using 2 capacitors in parallel giving 2000uF @ 200V, its 40Joules but it will shoot a rather large nail right through an (empty) aluminium can at 4 or 5 feet
Keep doors open!!?? outrageous, you should be charging them up and using them unsafely on something stupid, or at least using them for something cool...