Re: First Failure and Help

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Original poster: "Centauri by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <centauri010-at-attbi-dot-com>

Hello everyone,
Thanks for all the advice. When drilling what is the point of stacking them 
with the offset that all of you described?

Thanks

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
>Hi Alan,
>
>At 10:43 PM 12/26/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>I tried to build a geek group sw bottle cap. I think I must have 
>>completely failed. I have no way of measuring capacitance so I hooked the 
>>capacitor up to a 110v line in series. After letting it charge for a 
>>while I disconnected the mains line and tried to connect to other wires 
>>and get them to spark. No such luck. Is my experiment wrong or my cap 
>>isn't made right?
>
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>I think the cap is probably fine :-)
>
>The cap is probably like maybe 15nF of capacitance (wild guess 
>there).  The AC line can almost instantly charge and discharge it like 
>in...  (15nf x 1 x 5 = 0.0000000133 seconds ;-)  The capacitance may seem 
>very small and is no effort for the AC line.  However, it can store big 
>voltages which is what we want.  If you were really lucky and got the cap 
>charged to say 150 volts, it would only store:
>
>1/2 x 150^2 * 15e-9 = 169uJoules ;-))  That might as well be zero energy :o))
>
>It was really made for a Tesla coil cap not an AC line cap...  It needs 
>like thousand of volts stored on it before the fun begins ;-))
>don't worry, the cap is fine!
>
>>Also, does I'm trying to use strips of a cutting board I made as the 
>>supports for my primary. Does anybody have a quick and easy method for 
>>drilling all the holes with the neccessary spacing? The current way i'm 
>>looking at doing it is where I"ll have to drill a hole, measure .5 inch, 
>>drill a hole, ad infinitum. Help would be appreciated.
>
>
>A $150,000 CNC milling machine is faster...  But you are doing it exactly 
>the way I would... ;0)  I guess you could mark all the hole locations 
>first and then drill them...  That poly cutting board would probably just 
>gum up a CNC machine anyway... ;-D
>
>No worries, your doing fine.  We never said this stuff was easy ;-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
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>>Thanks,
>>Alan
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