Re: failed cap

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "philip barnes" <luck_phil87-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi.
 >     i built a cap with 1.6 mm or 64 mil thick PE dielectric and put the
 > whole thing in canola oil. It worked great for a while but while i had just
 > the cap across the nst ,,, with no tesla coil connected.. to test my new
 > mulitgap sparkgap... the PE between 2 of the plates broke down and now it
 > blows bubbles and hisses and only produces a spark in the gap if the gap is
 > 1 mm or 30 mil . Its pretty much had it and must be breaking down at 1 or 2
 > thousand volts..IS it more stressfull on a cap with no tesla coil connected
 > and is it suprising my cap did not last in my config. The plates are 1.75"
 > clearance from each end and 1" along the sides. !6 sheets of makes each 
layer
 >
 > Phil

	No safety gap?

Ed