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Re: Filling caps with oil
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To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
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Subject: Re: Filling caps with oil
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From: nikki-at-fastlane-dot-net (Bert Pool)
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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 08:59:06 -0500
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>>From chip Fri Mar 1 17:16 MST 1996
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:16:06 +0700
>From: chip (Chip Atkinson)
>To: tesla
>Subject: Filling caps with oil
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>Greetings,
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>In response to Ken's discussion of filling the capacitors:
>I agree with him in that once there is oil surrounding the air bubble, it moves
>very slowly. I saw this with a plate cap that I vacuumed.
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>To fill my rolled cap, I used a T connection connected to a hose that went into
>the oil bucket. The other ends were connected to the vacuum pump and the
>cap. I closed off the oil hose, pumped down the cap. Then I closed off the
>pump, and opened up the oil hose. This filled the cap at a "vacuum". I think
>the technique worked, as I haven't had any problems with the cap.
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>Chip
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Most manufacturers pump a vacuum on their caps then let the vacuum suck the
oil into the cap layers. If you have no air in the cap when you introduce
the oil, then you can hardly have air bubbles afterwards!
Bert