[NJARC] non-Polarized Capacitors

[NICHOLAS SENKER]

For John Rucollo and Steve Colandra; we were discussing non-polarized caps for speaker crossovers; these are available commercially and I think I have some; will bring them to the swapmeet.
According to my Popular Science 'How to build your own Radio and Hi-Fi' manual; you can make your own non-polarized caps by connecting two regular electolytics 'back-to-back'.  Connect the negative leads together and use the positive leads for speaker connections.
For a 2000 hz crossover at 8 ohms, you need a 10 mfd cap but if you put two caps in series as above you need twice the capacitance; in this case, 20 mfd each.
Nick Senker