Re: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

I forgot where this one came from but check this puppy
out:

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/60_MJ_cap_bank.jpg

adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
<snip>
 >
 > Actually, much better... The standard squarish can
 > (12x12x29) was 6kJ using
 > kraft paper/oil.... These days, you can get 100 kJ
 > in the can..
 >
 > This raises a significant problem.. 6kJ is an energy
 > that can be contained
 > by the steel box forming the cap...so, if an
 > internal fault develops, the
 > explosion won't be that spectacular...
 > However, 100 kJ is not something you can hold in, so
 > internal failures are
 > MUCH more spectacular. I've heard stories (but not
 > actually seen) about
 > tests with caps exploding... at these energies, the
 > fuses are to protect the
 > cap from the other caps in the bank, rather than to
 > protect the single cap.
 > Imagine 50 of those puppies in parallel.... (Project
 > Sherwood...)
 >
 > These days, I think they use Compulsators for
 > Megajoule energies.... Except
 > perhaps in multimarx setups like the Z-machine.
 >
 >


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