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Re: 11 foot arc right off the bat

Original poster: "Dave" <dgoodfellow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Is that brilliant white light at the base of the coil coming from the spark gap, or was capacitor that hot just prior to its demise? ;-) 

Dave Goodfellow


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Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Over current is my guess...
I would think the "peak current" might have blown an internal strap interconnecting the sections. 

Or...  The "RMS current" overheated the whole thing and blew the case apart.

You could probably figure it out by digging into the remains...

Better get an MMC ;-))

Cheers,

        Terry


At 02:19 PM 5/14/2006, you wrote:
That Maxwell looks just like mine, it blew the same way last week! What a mess!
Anyone have any thoughts if this failure mode is due to over-voltage or over-current? 

Curt.


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Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Miles,

Was the crack of the case of the 50 KV Maxwell
caused by internal failure or a drop on the concrete?

David Rieben

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>Original poster: "miles waldron" <mileswaldron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>I have become Ken's publicist. Check out the White Knight, kenscoil.com, >a
>work in progress. We are trying to come up with a practical, nice way, >to
>document our work and reasoning. Any suggestions are appreciated, but >please 
>be polite. We are serious coilers.
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>http://www.kenscoil.com/whitenight-May-13-2006.htm
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