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RE: Multi-layered Secondary (fwd)





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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:04:43 -0800
From: "Basura, Brian" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com>
To: 'Tesla List' <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: RE: Multi-layered Secondary

Hello,

I've been bit by one of those little camera caps. I DON'T EVER WANT IT
TO HAPPEN AGAIN!!!  If I remember correctly it was 400v -at- ?mfd.  I'll
look tonight for the rating.

Regards,
Brian D. Basura
USITG - Manager, Technical Support
(818)777-0979

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> Sent: 	Thursday, March 26, 1998 10:31 PM
> To: 	'Tesla List'
> Subject: 	Multi-layered Secondary
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> From:  Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
> Sent:  Thursday, March 26, 1998 5:01 PM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Re: Multi-layered Secondary
> 
> Jim Lux wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that the 180 Hz system is basically in the same category.
> The
> > stored energy in 15 kH at 55 mA is about 20 Joules. Potentially
> lethal, but
> > probably not (it's about what is stored in the on camera flash unit
> in one
> > of those disposable cameras, which darkroom operators get zapped by
> all the
> > time).
> 
> Not to pick nits here, Jim, but I have a hard time believing that
> those
> little
> cameras store 20 joules.  Even if the cap was 200uF at 200VDC, (small
> for a 
> photoflash cap, but larger than what I remember seeing in the dozen or
> so
> disposable strobes I've got lying about somewhere) you'd only get 4J.
> 
> Out of curiosity, does anyone have one of them handy to read off some
> values?
> 
> I have a bunch of them burried in storage somewhere.  I was going to
> use
> them
> in a costume...
> 
> -Gomez
> 
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