RE: [TCML] Ebay I tems

[Gates Larocque <gateslarocque@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No problem but if you pay attention to the actual ebay Item listing it does not say anything about what to use them for and leave it to ones own discretion and experience.

I've used these caps in many coil's with no problem sold all of them wich never failed this is my last one wich I never used in any Tesla Coil system.

Gates
 
> From: pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Ebay I tems
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:08:26 -0400
> 
> I don't mean to hurt your sales effort or anything but I have owned several 
> of the Maxwell caps and discovered some problems with using them with Tesla 
> Coils.
> 
> They have a relatively low duty cycle and there have been at least a couple 
> of coilers who have suffered catastrphic failures using these caps. You can 
> search the archives because there was a thread that discussed this at length 
> about 3, maybe 4 years back. One person, I can not remember his name, 
> unfortunately, who had his fail and he went to the trouble of disassembling 
> it and taking photos of what had been destroyed.
> 
> If I remember correctly, his solution was to use 2 of them in series to get 
> .015uF and 70kV to use with a 15kV 30mA neon sign transformer. I can not 
> remember any other of the details now. I will try to find it in the archive 
> and pass along what I find. I thought everyone should be aware of this. I 
> seem to remember also that Mr. D.C. Cox was involved in that discussion, if 
> he cares to comment. That is if I'm not wrong, AGAIN! :-) My memory is 
> pretty foggy these days but I am fairly certain he at least made some 
> comments during that discussion.
> 
> This is not to knock these caps at all. I recently sold two of them on eBay 
> myself. Apparently, they are a perfect fit for high voltage flash 
> photography and Kirlian photography as this was the application the buyer 
> was using them for. They are definitely pulse discharge caps and good to 
> 35kV. It is only the duty cycle that I am aware of that presents any 
> problems, which leads me to wonder why using 2 of them in series helped??
> Paul
> Think Positive
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Gates Larocque
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> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 13:14
> Subject: [TCML] Ebay I tems
> 
> 
> 
> Hey gang I'm selling a few Items on ebay please take a look.
> 
> Maxwell pulse cap.
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160368739323&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:ITHv resistors 4 of them.http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160368739112&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:ITSSTC spark gap board I have a second board no components. somewhere and iffoud will be included to buyer for free.http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160368738096&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT_________________________________________________________________New! Get to Messenger faster: Sign-in here now!http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677407_______________________________________________Tesla mailing listTesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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