Re: Homemade cap..........

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Original poster: Phil Rembold <prembold@xxxxxxxxx>

David, your not crazy, your doing what most of us do, find what
resources are at hand, adapt as needed, whatever it takes to make
coils !!  ;-)    Can understand you wanting to run then dry, but this
could cause the units to overheat, you may be able to compensate for
this by having 3 layers of poly between each plate (of course you'll
have to add a few more plates, other than that, good luck and let us
know how it turns out.



On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:53:25 -0700, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I know the thing to do these days is to build a nice mmc cap, but,....I
> have a chance to buy a 'poly tube' , well , actually , its used for bagging
> things in the warehouse I work at. Its a continuose 8" wide , 1075 foot
> long poly bag , 4 mil thick.  $65 bucks. I thought I could make enough
> little caps in series ,with my 14400 input , to keep the voltage below 700v
> on each cap, and run them dry.I need about .03mfd , so I thought about
> 48caps @ 1.4mfd .,bag to bag would be 8mil. And I figuerd my input as 30kv
> for safety...30,000 / 48 = 625v per cap. AM I CRAZY OR WHAT? thanks
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