Re: Re. HDPE found: check my capacitor, please

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Re. HDPE found: check my capacitor, please
From: Marco Denicolai <marco-at-vistacom.fi> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:35:16 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 12:02 22/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Harri Suomalainen" <haba-at-cc.hut.fi> 
>It is not a gap. It is a discharge along the surface. Coilers have
>broken caps with only 2cm creepage clearance. There is a reason to
>this too: electrical field component along the surface is quite
>large. So, it would push any discharge further. (Simplified)

I got the idea...

>>But why not to leave vacuum?
>
>Uhum, you are not trying to tell about leaving the cap with vacuum,
>are you? That would be a very bad idea!
>

I meant fill with oil (but not fully) and leave some empty vacuum volume.

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