Re: Stupid Capacitors!

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Winston,
            It is obvious that you subjected the caps to far too much 
current. You obviously need a lot more strings in parallel for your 
coil. I have 15 in parallel for a coil running about 700A peak 
primary current.

Malcolm

On 25 Jan 2002, at 8:15, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Marry Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> 	Well, my MMC bank just failed catastrophicaly (burst into flames) for
> the 5th time, and my wooden primary form just carbon tracked.  I have
> about 5 min. total run time on my coil, so this is going to get
> expensive pretty soon!  All but one cap failed open circuit, so the lead
> to plate junctions must not be good enough.  I don't have enough $$$ for
> a Geek MMC, so I'll probably build a plate cap.  It's going to be big,
> since I need 0.1 uF.  I can get PE sheet rather cheaply.  Which is best,
> high or low density PE?  Any suggestions?
> 
> Now working feverishly,
> 	Winston
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