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Re: 18,000. AMP high energy Cap bank

Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: 18,000. AMP high energy Cap bank


> Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 12/17/04 9:14:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>  >>     How does one limit these current levels? If a energy discharge cap
>  >> system has an ultimate safe rating of (say) 20kA, how does one make
sure
>  >> that current isn't exceeded during an experiment that vaporizes a
specimen?
>
> Don't forget that this is a linear system... You can charge the capacitor
> to a lower voltage, close the switch and measure the currents with a
> conventional oscilloscope.  Then just scale.


>
>      Is it still a linear system if you vaporize a wire, or discharge
> through a gas tube? Are small vaporizations linear to higher-energy ones?
> Or is a good hefty chunk of copper pipe (or other low-inductance load that
> will survive) a good "worst case short circuit" to presume and work
> backward from there?
>

The latter... your goal is to avoid destruction of components, so you worst
case the load: a short circuit, or a wire comparable to the length of the
wire you're exploding.