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



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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:49:03 MYT
From: Sulaiman Abdullah <sulabd-at-hotmail-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Capacitor check : about tracking sparks on surface of     dielectric (fwd)



>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.
>
WOW! 3". Do you suppose it's because PVC is so bad or
could I see the same (sad) thing happen to my PE.


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