Re: How long IS safe?

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

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>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jim-at-jlproduction-dot-com>
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>Hi all,
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>I was just curious to know how long of a run is safe? On my first run I never
>let it go for more than 20-30 seconds at the most but
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>this made it hard to take any good pictures. I live in N.H. and yesterday
>inside the unheated garage it was only about 35 degrees or
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>so. Even after a good 30 second run not one single component was even the
>slightest bit warm and actually was still ice cold!
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>I figured that heat would be the big killer of components, but I could very
>well be wrong.
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> 
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>The Ozone thing is a different story as I know if you can smell it then
you are
>already at dangerous levels. We cracked the bay door
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>and opened the side door on the opposite end of the garage for a good cross
>breeze and that eliminated that pretty well.
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>Any thoughts on this?
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>Thanks,
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>Jim L
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Hi Jim...

i suppose it all depends upon the capacitors vital functions  :)    I 
can run my smaller coil for hours at a time till I get bored with it. My 
BIGPIG coil on the other hand requires at least 15 minutes of cool down 
time after running for 15 minutes straight ( a 1:1 on/off ratio) the 
caps do get a bit warm ...
but then again .. pushing 30KV -at- nearly 1\2 an amp ( 18KVA) is alot of 
heat to process...

Scot D