Re: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:33:03 -0400
From: David Speck <Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)

Mike,

What kind of caps were they?

Dave

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> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:31:42 -0600
> From: Michael Robinson <muze801@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: A Coiler's Intuition
>
> Well everybody I've decided not to increase my coil's power. (at least for now)
>
> While I was running it tonight and was getting some of my best
> streamers yet, I was overcome by a great feeling that something was
> going to finally fail on me very soon.  I was thinking this as I was
> fine tuning it, so i felt my caps, and to my surprise they were
> somewhat warm which I had never noticed before.
> After moving my tap an inch or so I decided to do one more run for the
> night, and got good results, but as I powered it down I heard a very
> faint hiss.  I decided to check everything out and looked at my NST,
> Caps, Gap, and anything else it could be, but nothing looked wrong.
> This prompted one more test run, so I came to my variac and fired it
> up once more.
> After less than 5 seconds...BOOM!!!...One of my capacitors exploded
> (my ears are still ringing)
>
> And so ends a beginner coiler's first 'disaster'.