Re: exploding wire

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Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 07:54 PM 6/13/2006, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
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> approx 3 kJ/ft of wire, so you should be able to blow up a 35 ft 
> long wire approx #28 AWG.

I suspect that such a long wire would have high enough inductance 
that the voltage required to get the current high enough, fast 
enough, would be quite large.    There's more to exploding wires than 
just energy.
Time to configure those capacitors into a Marx...


> I'm building up a 168 kV DC power supply using an X-ray xmfr to 
> charge up a 200 kV  one uF capacitor bank for our open house 
> explosions on Sept. 9th. See you there!
>
> Dr. Resonance
>
>
> > I have a 25kv 330uf cap bank (103,000 joules) I wonder how big a 
> > wire I could use..