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Re: Homemade cap..........



Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 at 700 volts per capacitor this will probably work since corona will be
minimal. Never tried it personally though. Be sure to collect plenty of data
when you do it.

Eric
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Homemade cap..........


> Original poster: Phil Rembold <prembold@xxxxxxxxx> > > David, your not crazy, your doing what most of us do, find what > resources are at hand, adapt as needed, whatever it takes to make > coils !! ;-) Can understand you wanting to run then dry, but this > could cause the units to overheat, you may be able to compensate for > this by having 3 layers of poly between each plate (of course you'll > have to add a few more plates, other than that, good luck and let us > know how it turns out. > > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:53:25 -0700, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > I know the thing to do these days is to build a nice mmc cap, but,....I > > have a chance to buy a 'poly tube' , well , actually , its used for bagging > > things in the warehouse I work at. Its a continuose 8" wide , 1075 foot > > long poly bag , 4 mil thick. $65 bucks. I thought I could make enough > > little caps in series ,with my 14400 input , to keep the voltage below 700v > > on each cap, and run them dry.I need about .03mfd , so I thought about > > 48caps @ 1.4mfd .,bag to bag would be 8mil. And I figuerd my input as 30kv > > for safety...30,000 / 48 = 625v per cap. AM I CRAZY OR WHAT? thanks > > > > > >