Re: Halloween night, CP cap {con,de}struction

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• Subject: Re: Halloween night, CP cap {con,de}struction
• From: "Edward J. Wingate" <ewing7-at-frontiernet-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 20:45:02 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: Chip Atkinson <chip-at-pupman-dot-com>

> In conclusion, the excitement of having the coil work well for once and
> for a long time has outweighed the loss of the caps.  I'm going to expand
> the under coil box to accomodate four home made rolled caps and am pretty
> well through with commercial caps.
> 
> BTW, I estimate that I was running at about 500 breaks/sec (6 electrodes
> turning at about 5000rpm, and somewhere between 10,500 and 11,500 volts,
> based on the variac settings.  (Didn't get to check on the voltage meter
> because of the excitement. :-)
> 
> Chip
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Chip,

Sorry to here of the demise of two caps in one night! I'm glad the
safety precautions worked out and the only loss was the capacitors. 

Were you running any safety gaps on those caps? Just curious.

Ed Wingate RATCB

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