RE: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:21:23 +0000
From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
To: 'Tesla list' <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)

I'm very surprised to hear that it was a CD cap that went boom.  There's really nothing to accumulate pressure and burst.

Gary Lau
MA, USA


> From: Michael Robinson <muze801@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: A Coiler's Intuition (fwd)
>
> Sorry for the left out details,  It was an under engineered MMC with
> just one string of eight 0.15 CD caps powered by a 12/60 NST.
> I think thats its safe to say that a failure was to be expected from
> this set up, and now I will construct a new MMC with 2 strings of 15.
>
> As for the increase of power, I'm not really sure, but could it
> possibly be from the caps starting to fail and bringing me closer to
> resonance?
>
> Whatever the reason is I'll be sure to contact Dr. R about some new caps.
>
> Michael
>
>