Re: Blown Rolled "Hull" Capacitor Discussion

To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
Subject: Re: Blown Rolled "Hull" Capacitor Discussion
From: jim.fosse-at-bdt-dot-com (Jim Fosse)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 05:33:34 GMT
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tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com On Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:01:23 +0700, you
wrote:

>>From pop-at-cats.ucsc.edu Tue Mar 26 20:15 MST 1996
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>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 17:59:29 EST
>From: napier-at-cats.ucsc.edu (Lisa Napier, Mark Napier)
>To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Blown Rolled "Hull" Capacitor Discussion
>
>On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 12:00:07 +0700 you wrote:
>
>>I just took apart my first blown cap. 1 layer of 0.060" polyethylene.
>>Identical failure!  Both look as if a sharp point on the edge of one
>>of the plates punched thru the dielectric. Both holes were 1.5' to 2'
>>in from the inside of the roll.
>>
>>I had sanded and smoothed both cap's plates and used my fingers as
>>roughness gages.
>>
>>	2 sizzle jim
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>
>Try cutting the corners off with tin shears.  Say a half inch radius
>or better fillet.
>
>Mark
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>
>Mark R. Napier
>napier-at-cats.ucsc.edu
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I did that:(

	jim