Re: exploding wire

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>



Interesting, well, time will tell after we fire it a few times.  I 
will start with a 10 ft length of #26 AWG and go up from there.  I 
plan on forming it into a "zig-zag" lightning bolt configuration and 
fire it vertically so it resembles a bolt from above.

Should look interesting on film.

Dr. Resonance
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Subject: Re: exploding wire


> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At 07:54 PM 6/13/2006, Tesla list wrote:
> > Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > 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..