Re: Commercial pulse caps that died in Tesla coil

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

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > 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

1. You certainly CAN find PCB's in capacitors with fills like Chlorinol,
Pyranol, etc.  Use goes back to at least the mid 1930's.  Great stuff if
you don't ingest it accidently!

ed