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Re: Halloween night, CP cap {con,de}struction
Yeah, they went "BOOM". They are sealed up PVC containers and they burst.
They were on my roof, so there was no one around. The sparks were between
4 and 6 feet, but I haven't measured them really. It's not too bad for a
first attempt, but I'll have to spend a bit of time getting the thing
tweaked out. I used the commercial caps because they were compact and I
expected them to be good and robust.
Chip
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Chip Atkinson
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: Jonathan Bazemore <jpbazemo-at-ouray.cudenver.edu>
>
>
> Hello Chip,
>
> Too bad about your capacitors--you mean they actually blew up,
like
> bombs or something? Maybe some kind of plastic cage, that you could see
> through to inspect the operation, should be placed over caps like this for
> added
>
> safety?
>
> Anyway, I was wondering how long your sparks were? And after seeing
> the sturdy construction of your homemake capacitors, were you just curious
> about
>
> the commercial caps (to use them)?
>
> I guess one could conclude that commercial caps work quite well, but
> are
> not
> good for long-term applications heavily requiring cooling, etc.?
>
> Well, keep up the, err, interesting work! ;-)
>
>