Re: Build own capacators

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Original poster: tesla popp <teslas_lab@xxxxxxxxx>

Matt, you're missing the real point: HOMEMADE CAPS
SUCK!
Excuse me for being so blantent, but if you can tell
me even ONE instance where a home capacitor has
Out-Preformed, Outlasted, or been "More Compact" than
the cd942 MMC (when made properly), I will belive that
there is a future for the homemade cap!

Yes I AM stepping on some peoples toes here, but it's
NOT because Im an a**hole.  It's because I've wasted
TO MUCH TIME AND MONEY building my own caps, only to
have them fail!  I do care about the well being of the
list members and I know how much it sucks to have a
capacitor fail.  Please take my word on this, MAKE AN
MMC!

Im sorry to offend you who have lasting homemade caps,
but I push my coils (and there caps) very hard,  I
just ran one of my twins for 48 minuts.  The only
thing that got warm was the tranny, THE MMC REMAINED
COLD!  A run of 30+ minuts is very common here and
only the cd942 MMC has been flawless and lasted in
this area

Coiler Forever: Jeremiah Popp

PS: Cake mix won't EXPLODE and hurt you if you cook it
to long



--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
>
> Jeremiah, Christopher, All,
>
>      You are overlooking one very big point. There
> will always be
> those who will make their own caps just because they
> can and need to
> BECAUSE they can.. Just as most people will by a
> cake, and some will
> buy a cake mix, there will always be a few that,
> when they want a
> cake, will buy flour, sugar, milk, and eggs, not
> because of financial
> necessity or convenience, but because they just need
> to.
>
> Matt D.
>
>
> In a message dated 12/14/05 7:59:46 P.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ"
> <christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I agree mucho, been there, go MMC!
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wed Dec 14 13:25:00 2005
> Subject: Re: Build own capacators
>
> Original poster: tesla popp <teslas_lab@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just a little story: I used to defend all the
> homemade
> caps with a vengance, totally set against the idea
> the
> of spending money.  I had just completed my 14th
> homemade capacitor (polyethylene-60 mills thick) and
> waited 5 days to drive the air out.  Upon powering
> the
> cap with 15kvAC.  I was delited to see such great
> preformance from my first run with the cap.
>
> Only 10 seconds into the run "BANG"... I killed the
> cap!  As the oil became darker, my concept of
> capacitors melted away and I told myself "There MUST
> be something better, something more DEPENDABLE"
>
> I frantically began to search the web for lastng
> solutions and I came across something I had never
> heard of, It was called an M.M.C.,  I decided to go
> and spend a bit of $ and see if this thing called a
> Multi Mini Capacitor was really all that great.
>
> Let me tell you that since that fateful day, I have
> never even considered building another homemade
> capacitor, NEVER!  The cd942 series capacitor is THE
> BEST CAPACITOR for tesla coil use, PEROID!
> It will OUT PREFORM and OUTLAST *ANY* other
> comercially available capacitor for the price.  It
> is
> also MORE COMPACT than even some of the maxwells out
> there.
>
> Just a thought...
> Coiler Forever: Jeremiah Popp
>
>
>
>