[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: Blown Rolled "Hull" Capacitor Discussion
-
To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
-
Subject: Re: Blown Rolled "Hull" Capacitor Discussion
-
From: napier-at-cats.ucsc.edu (Lisa Napier, Mark Napier)
-
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 17:59:29 EST
-
>Received: from cats.ucsc.edu (pop-at-cats-po-1.UCSC.EDU [128.114.129.22]) by uucp-1.csn-dot-net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA25598 for <tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com>; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:53:17 -0700
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
Try cutting the corners off with tin shears. Say a half inch radius
or better fillet.
Mark
Mark R. Napier
napier-at-cats.ucsc.edu