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Re: CP out of Tesla Business
From: Bert Hickman[SMTP:bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com]
Reply To: bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 1997 3:34 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: CP out of Tesla Business
Tesla List wrote:
>
> From: Jeff W. Parisse[SMTP:jparisse-at-ddlabs-dot-com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 1997 8:48 PM
> To: 'Tesla List'
> Subject: CP out of Tesla Business
>
> All,
>
> Due to the product liability issues raised on this forum, Condenser > Products is no longer making Tesla Coil capacitors.
>
> I'm dumbfounded as to what to say next..... I'll just conclude by > saying that CP's products perform wonderfully for me as their decades > of capacitor making experience would suggest. Every person in that firm > is dedicated to making the finest product possible. CP even worked with > list members to redesign their Tesla product line after the "group > purchase failures". The company president, Bill Mason, cared enough > about my business to personally call me and talk over specifications. > > To my knowledge, every person who experienced a cap failure (~3 people > from an entire lot) was issued a redesigned replacement.
>
> I just hope the next company that develops a product line specifically > for our Tesla needs isn't pushed out of business by the litigious among > us.
>
> Jeff W. Parisse
> Art Director, Digital Design Laboratories
> www.ddlabs-dot-com 1-800-796-1138
Jeff and all,
Bummer! I suspect that they also may have looked at this particular
business as no longer being very profitable since their last product
recall on the group purchase of 25. The liability discussions mostly
died down about a year ago and hasn't resurfaced, even though we've had
a few more capacitor explosions since...
Fortunately, there are other vendors out there who are in the business
of selling high voltage laser/pulse discharge and dielectric heating
caps, not the least of which are Plastic Capacitors, Maxwell, NWL, etc.
Unfortunately, these may not be quite as inexpensive as those that CP
was offering. Still a shame!
-- Bert H --