RE: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:44:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)

A while back there was a group order for a bunch of tc caps from condenser
products.  I ended up with two of them and both blew up on me too.  They
were "professional" caps and yet there was no provision for pressure
relief either.  They were quite loud when they went, about cherry bomb
loud. 

Chip

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Tesla list wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:42:54 +0000
> From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)
> 
> The story is incomplete without details, like the exact construction of
> the capacitor, the NST voltage, gap construction and width.  It's also
> unclear what it was that changed to increase the power, beyond moving the
> primary tap(?).
> 
> I also had a cap go boom, but it was a rolled cap in oil, naively built in
> a sealed PVC pipe with no provision for pressure relief.
> http://www.laushaus.com/tesla/rolledcap.htm
> 
> Regards, Gary Lau
> MA, USA
> 
> > 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'.
> >
> >
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