Re: [TCML] Help identifying this cap. Is it suitable?

["David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

I really hate to be the one to "rain on your parade" but
this appears to be a filter duty capacitor and my guess
is that it would probably fail in pretty short order in
Tesla coil duty. It appears to be pretty old as well and
may be filled with PCBs. Of course, just the fact that a
capacitor is PCB filled does not affect its suitability for
an application, but disposal could be an issue (if too
many folks know you had it). <;^|

David Rieben


----- Original Message ----- 
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To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:37 PM
Subject: [TCML] Help identifying this cap. Is it suitable?


> I found this cap at work. I'm looking for a spark gap tank cap. It will be 
> a pole pig system using approximately 10kva. Do you think this cap is 
> suitable? The only info I have on it is that it measures 100nf. I assume it 
> must be pretty high voltage considering the size of the insulators. Can you 
> guys help me?
> It weighs 14 lbs. btw.
>
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