IBM 029 progress

[Eric Smith]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> You could probably beat 100F by building into a 55gal drum and 
> designing carefully.
If by "designing carefully" you mean putting a lot of parallel supercaps 
inside the drum, yes.

If you mean designing an actual capacitor yourself out of materials you 
machine yourself with resources available to a serious hobbyist, most 
likely not.  Making high-value capacitors is NOT easy, which is why 
capacitors >1F didn't become generally available until the mid-1980s.

Eric