Re: Commercial pulse caps that died in Tesla coil

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Original poster: "Crow Leader" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net> 

Hello,


1) you won't find transformer oil in a capcitor
2) orange fireball doesn't sound like an the results of an impregnant they'd
use in a RF rated cap either.

I'm going to chalk this up in my book to use of the wrong capacitor,
not manufacturing and engineering defect of the product itself.

KEN

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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: Commercial pulse caps that died in Tesla coil


 > Original poster: "Daniel Kline" <daniel_kline-at-med.unc.edu>
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 >  > -----Original Message-----
 >  > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 >  > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:27 AM
 >  > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  > Subject: Commercial pulse caps that died in Tesla coil
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "Scott Hanson" <huil888-at-surfside-dot-net>
 >  >
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 >  > We hear so many unsubstantiated "urban legends" about
 >  > exploding capacitors, sheets of flaming oil, etc, etc...
 >  > Regards,
 >  > Scott Hanson
 >
 > I have on video a Plastic Capacitors cap exploding and sending
 > an orange fireball across the room. One of the end-bolts stuck
 > in the wall (I don't remember if that's on the video) and
 > transformer oil was all over everything. I'll be happy to make
 > you a copy and send it if you like. Hardly an "urban legend".
 > Dan K.
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