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

Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 at 700 volts per capacitor this will probably work since corona will be
minimal. Never tried it personally though. Be sure to collect plenty of data
when you do it.

Eric
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Homemade cap..........


> 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.
>
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> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:53:25 -0700, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > 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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