vitamin Q capacitors

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• Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 00:13:46 -0500
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Subject:   vitamin Q capacitors
  Date:    Sat, 3 May 97 05:10:54 UT
  From:    "William Noble" <William_B_Noble-at-MSN.COM>
    To:    "Tesla List" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>


I bought 7 vitamin Q (sprague) 0.01 uf 7.5 KV oil capcitors figuring
that they 
might make ok tank capacitors when wired in series/parallel.  I was
wrong - 
they do nothing except keep the coil from working at all.  They have are
oil 
filled by the looks of them, and have one terminal marked "+" and the
other 
"-" - the "-" terminal is the case, the positive is on top of a 1 inch
ceramic 
post.

Anyway, these are not good for a spark gap tesla.  However, they would
seem to 
be good for a B+ filter on a tube type tesla coil - so if any of you
guys 
making tube coils would like them, I'd be happy to pass them on - I paid
a bit 
over $20 for the 7 capacitors and of course I'd like to get something
back out 
of them - if you can use them drop me an E mail note directly (let's not 
clutter up the list) and see what we can work out.  I'd be happy to ship
them 
to you - better that they get used than they sit around here and annoy
me 

At least this proves that the advice from the list (to eschew commercial
oil 
filled capacitors of this type) was correct - although they did not heat
up as 
I was warned.

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