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Subject: TESLA CAPACITORS
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From: richard.quick-at-slug-dot-org (Richard Quick)
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 00:10:00 GMT
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> Quoting Ed Sonderman:
ES> Coilers,
ES> ... run into a problem with the capacitor. It is the one
ES> difficult thing to make at home. I did make two rolled
ES> capacitors using aluminum flashing and .0625 polyethylene.
ES> I did a good careful job building them. They both came out
ES> at .019 microfarads. They worked fine for a while until I
ES> finally got up to 12kv and tried to run them for several
ES> minutes at a time and they both eventually failed -
Oh, and we forgot to mention that homemade capacitors may be
fairly easily disassembled, patched, and returned to service.
Richard Quick
... If all else fails... Throw another megavolt across it!
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