RE: Plastics

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Original poster: "Calvin Patrick by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <linhacktux-at-wycol-dot-com>

Yes, this particular cap I have been told would have alot of trouble.  Wood
frame, and aluminum flashing for plates.  I'm told that I will have corona
problems due to the rough edges on the plates.  I'm redesigning the circut
all together.  It was designed as a igniton coil driver circut fed into a
tesla system, but I just got my hands of a brand new 15000v neon
transformer, that should work nicely.  I'm definatly going to look into a
capacitor bank system.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:23 AM
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> Subject: Re: Plastics
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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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> Tesla list wrote:
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> >Original poster: "Calvin Patrick by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <linhacktux-at-wycol-dot-com>
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> >Where can I find Polyetheline for building a capacitor.  I'm looking for
> >.06" thickness.
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> Hi Calvin...
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> McMaster Carr sells 4'X8' sheets of the stuff for about 75$ . Its high
> quality stuff ( no impurities) but..... try considering an optional
> route of building a MMC cap before spending time, money, and frustration
> on a home-built cap. I must admit there is a bit of satisfaction to see
> a homebuilt cap work in a tesla coil application, but when the pendulum
> swings the other way ....  there is alot of frustration when the thing
> blows up ( and it WILL ).
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> Scot D
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