Re: CP Caps

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: CP Caps
From: Jim Fosse <jim.fosse-at-bdt-dot-com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 06:50:37 GMT

>From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: CP Caps
>
>Hi all,
>        Just a thought. To complement my magazine article I had to 
>design low-ESR caps that could be easily built. A few notes : they are
>suitable for 5000VAC (uWave supplies), run in air although the coronas
>eventually kill them (with careful intermittent use we have got 30 
>minutes of run time out of them), and are cheap to build. As a simple
>work-out-of-the-box design I think they'd be hard to beat. Absolutely
>no hazard either - when they do fail, they go in a puff of smoke. 
>Ironically, the coil continues to work, the discharge just slowly 
>diminishes as the smoke gets thicker. The design is available on
>Jim's ftp site I think.
>
>Malcolm
>
Yes,	ftp.bdt-dot-com/home/jim.fosse/malcolm_watts_cap.txt 
and a few other files.

jim

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