Re: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!

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• Subject: Re: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
• From: richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
• Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 08:06:12 -0500 (EST)
• Subscriber: rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net Sat Feb 15 14:46:40 1997

At 10:25 PM 2/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> Subject: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
>
>Subscriber: bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com Thu Feb 13 22:11:37 1997
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:38:41 -0800
>From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
>
>Tesla List wrote:
>> 
>> Subscriber: knardell-at-mailhost.accesscom-dot-net Tue Feb 11 22:30:48 1997
>> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:56:14 -0600
>> From: Kevin Nardelle <knardell-at-mailhost.accesscom-dot-net>
>> To: mhammer-at-misslink-dot-net
>> Subject: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
>> 
>> Ok I take back everything I said about SW Bottle caps not exploding, we blew
>> three tonight and one of them exploded with such fury my cool neighbor has a
>> cut under his eye from flying glass.
>> 
>> They all blew and threw oil and glass over the room, I always kept mine in a
>> box but these were sitting on the table about 2 feet away from the coil so I
>> think that could be the problem.
>> On another note we did get 10 inches of spark from this tiny coil. The
>> winding legnth is 9 inches so we are doing ok.
>> 
>> We both have decided to stop running the coils untill we make the poly caps.
>> 
>> For all you guys that still use the saltwater capacitors be carefull!
>> 
>>                                        Regards,
>>                                             Kevin Nardelle


Sometimes I think we all forget that even a medium coil makes use of
megawatt peak pulsed energy levels.  These things are just machine gun-like,
belt fed, energy pumps.  Regular materials are often just not acceptable for
pushing the envelope.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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