Re: Capacitors self charging?

Dino Arnulfo M. Baua ( (no email) )
Wed, 13 May 1998 23:23:32 +0800

Hi Jim!!!

It is said that if you had a galvanometer sensitive enough, you could measure a voltage just by moving its probes in a straight line. The probes would cut the flux in the air from emf's and generate enough current. That could be the cause... they're just miliVolts of charge.

Dino- @}

At 11:51 PM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I remember seeing something on Keelynet about dropping a cap or spinning one
>and measuring a voltage increase but not stationary.
>
>Any thoughts?

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