Re: Cap Experiments and now less ??

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Cap Experiments and now less ??
• From: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:13:22 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

In a message dated 98-10-09 03:52:52 EDT, you write:

<< 
> My conclusions are you canīt use the pretty thin poly (if that is what my
> stuff is) in a homemade cap. I have unrolled a couple of commericial 10kV DC
> filter caps. (Plastic Cap Chicago) that had died in tc usage. They seem to
use
> a sort of paper (which has about the same total thickness as my thin PE
stuff)
> These caps got so hot in TC use (like my thin PE caps.....?!) that the glass
> cracked.
  >>

The stuff that gets hot sounds like Mylar (I forget the generic name,
polyethylene-something).  Mylar is too lossy for TC use and gets hot.

John Freau

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