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Re: A C.P. death in the family
From: Bert Hickman[SMTP:bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com]
Reply To: bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com
Sent: Friday, November 14, 1997 1:09 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: A C.P. death in the family
Tesla List wrote:
>
> From: Steve Roys [SMTP:sroys-at-umabnet.ab.umd.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 1997 11:47 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: A C.P. death in the family
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> I think I've done toasted my Condenser Products cap that I got a few
> years ago as part of the group deal. I had it stored out in my unheated
> garage with my coil, and when I cranked everything up a few weeks ago, it
> worked for about 5 seconds, then everything just stopped sparking. When I
> unhooked the cap and looked at it a little closer, it wasn't sloshing
> around at all, so I guess the cold had solidified the oil or whatever,
> which led to a dielectric failure. Now that I've had it in the house
> where it's all warm and toasty, it sloshes around again, but it's still dead.
>
> Regardless of "why", the fact remains that it's gone. Which leads me to
> ask the question:
>
> Has anyone gotten anything out of Condenser Products other than having
> them say they will look at the caps to see why they fail?
>
> If the answer to this question is no, then I'm inclined to just pop it
> open myself to see if there's anything that I can do to salvage it. It
> used to be a nice .025uF cap, but it now measures about .069 uF (if I
> remember right), and it doesn't do squat in my coil.
>
> Steve.
Steve,
Sorry to hear about your loss. Don Froula had a cap blow up at my house
last year during a test run. He sent it back to CP, they analyzed it and
discovered a manufacturing defect that affected a whole batch (the
_last_ group buy, I believe). And they did replace Don's cap per the
warranty.
-- Bert --