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Re: Capacitor check : about tracking sparks on surface of dielectric (fwd)





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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 18:42:57 EDT
From: ESchulz531 <ESchulz531-at-aol-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Capacitor check : about tracking sparks on surface of dielectric

	I had 30kv track across 3 inches on clean PVC in one of my capacitors.  I
cleaned the material and used gloves as not to get oil from my hands on it.
PVC is a real bad material for tesla coil capacitors so I guess I should have
suspected this.