Re: Fwd: X-ray Pictures of HV Caps

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

Hi Mark,
           I would like to reply to your comments re the Condenser
Products caps:

On 14 Apr 2004, at 12:42, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <terry-at-hot-streamer-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > >
 > >From: "Mark Rzeszotarski" <mark.rzeszotarski-at-cwru.edu>
 > >
 > >Greetings All:
 > >    If you have an interest in having a look inside some high voltage
 > >    (HV)
 > > capacitors, take a look at the rather large 15 Mb file cap_xray.pdf,
 > > placed in Terry's temp folder at http://www.hot-streamer/temp
 > >I recently took a number of conventional and x-ray photos of some of
 > >my collection of high voltage capacitors - for your viewing pleasure.
 > > I receive the digest form of the tesla list and usually read it
 > >several days behind the current postings, so if you want to
 > >correspond with me privately, send it to msr7-at-po.cwru.edu instead of
 > >(or in addition to) the list.  As always, comments and flames are
 > >welcome. Regards,

One of my units did fail in a non-catastrophic way when used well
within its ratings, both in terms of breakrate and peak applied
voltage. The company did admit that a manufacturing defect was
present and replaced both of my units under guarantee without
question.

Malcolm