RE: Re: website

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Original poster: "Stolz, Mark by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mark.Stolz-at-st-systems-dot-com>




>Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun-dot-com>
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>I took a look at his web page. One thing I'ld watch out about is that he
>listed "glassmike" capacitor as being acceptable for TC use. I had one
>literally explode on me when I was just starting out in this hobby. I was
>pretty scared at the time, and in retrospect this seems appropriate, as the
>cap is contained in a glass tube which shatters into lots of small pieces
>during the explosion. I'ld like to see that other people don't make this 
>same
>mistake. Similarly he has "mylar" listed as acceptable. While I've never
>exploded one, I've never had one last more than 60 seconds (even on a tiny
>6kV-20mA NST).
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I think this might be some of that "legacy" information that hangs around.
For instance in Brent Turner's book, "The Tesla Coil Book", he lists
Glassmike caps as acceptable and that book has been around a while.

Mark Stolz
Houston, TX

>I do like the intent of the site though, I have also wanted to construct a
>site the did cataloge things that people might want to try, but have 
>already
>been tried and proved to not work. Save people a lot of trouble.
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>Peter Lawrence.
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msnip