Re: Magnifier Primary Capacitors - EQUIDRIVE vs. STANDARD

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com> 

Hi Dr. R

I have never seen it either in 12 years.  I have used both the series and
parallel, and have seen no residual charge.  I can see how the equi-drive
could do it, as the primary side has no connection to ground or anything
else.  The series and parallel circuits both drain thru the xfmr to ground.
(on NSTs)  The only caps I was ever worried about were the 30DKT5's in the
filter, and would ground out the middle plates on the stack of two.  I have
read somewhere, that the isolated plates in seriesed capacitors can float
after a while, but have never actually seen it happen unless they were
purposely charged.

David E Weiss


 > Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > A proposed experiment for active members of this list:
 >
 >
 > In all the coils we have built we have never (in over 45 years) seen any
 > charge remaining on a cap operating in an AC tank circuit.  I know Ed and
 > others have reported that charge does remain with an equa-drive system,
but
 > with the standard classic configuration I have never seen any residual
 > charge whatsoever.
 >
 > We operate a coil and we are tuning it and after shutdown we adjust the
 > tuning tap and adjust the sparkgap usually within 60 seconds and we have
 > never received an electric shock in any manner.  In theory, if you shut
off
 > the coil at the exact AC peak, you should have some charge left but we
have
 > never encountered any charge.