Re: Fr. Tom Paper Poly & oil

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• Subject: Re: Fr. Tom Paper Poly & oil
• From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
• Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:13:35 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:39:01 +1200
From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Fr. Tom Paper Poly & oil

Hi Larry,

> From: Larry Robertson <LWRobertson-at-classic.msn-dot-com>
> To: Tesla Builders <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: Fr. Tom Paper Poly & oil
> 
> Hi ...
> 
> My first cap looked like two very wide plates of your flat cap
> rolled up -i.e. each of the two plates extended from a different
> end of the roll.
> 
> It's failure was exactly like yours - the place it broke through
> was between an edge where another plate extended beyond.

The edge of a conductor is generally (without going into all the ins 
and outs) a highly favoured corona launching pad, plate below it or 
no plate below it.

Malcolm

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