Re: Impulse Tesla Coil...

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Original poster: "Bunnykiller by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>


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>     You didn't say exactly what failed.  If the machine used electrolytic
>capacitors for energy storage you might have destroyed them by
>connecting the primary coil across them as that would have resulted in
>high reverse voltage during the ringdown.
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>Ed
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what failed was the hi pressure hi volt contact switch...   one of the 
electrodes that pass thru the glass envelope must have heated too much and 
caused a joint failure at the metal/glass connection.  The electrode blew 
out of the envelope leaving a clean hole the same size of the electrode 
along with some fractures emminating from the hole...

Scot D