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Light The Bulb

A capacitor lighting up a light bulb
PIRA: 5C30.30

Materials: Capacitor, Bulb in Base, Gen Con

This demo is to show that capacitors hold charge then discharge when connected to a closed circuit. The way this works is to charge a capacitor preferably a small with the gen con then connecting the capacitor to a bulb in a base and see that it lights the bulb with no battery or generator.