Re: big cap

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Original poster: "Rick W by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rickwilliams404-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Jonathon,

The bleeders would have to be a lower value than the capacitor's reactance
to offset the voltages. That would produce a more resistive circuit than a
capacitive one and would draw more than twice the current. It would barely
oscillate, if at all.

Rick Williams
Salt Lake City

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Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: big cap


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
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> Couldn't you use big bleeders to even out the voltage problem?
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> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
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> >
> > > Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I have a 2uF / 63kV cap from an impulse x-ray machine, and I was
trying to
> > > think of a use other than a can crusher. Suppose you needed a 0.1uF
cap
> > for
> > > a tesla coil tank circuit. I noticed that if a 0.1uF Geek cap is
placed in
> > > series with a 2uF cap, the combined capacitance is 0.095uF (close to
> > 0.1uF).
> > > The general idea is "tweaking" the 2uF cap with Geek caps to get 0.1uF
or
> > > less. It seems to work on paper, but will it work in reality. It is
> > possible
> > > that impulse caps from x-ray machines don't stand up well in tesla
duty.
> > >
> > > Godfrey Loudner
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
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