Re: What was that?????

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

Hi Jeremiah,

Welcome to the wonderful world of power electronics!!  Exciting isn't it!! ;-))

This is known as "something blew up!!" ;-))  My guess is the cap shorted
and feed some real juice into the coil.  of the SCR sorted.  Something that
was suppose to limit or control the circuit failed.  Expect to find much
damage...

Don't forget safety glasses when playing with such stuff.  Flying fire is
common!

Cheers,

	Terry


BTW - I modified the subject line in your post a little since some people
may find it offensive.



At 05:13 PM 8/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Okay i was in my basement messing with the ignition coil circuit that
>someone gave me.  Hot___dimmer switch___capacitor___ignition coil
>                                         Neutral____________________________
>_____|
>That's what it looks like sort of.  Well my dad recently burned up my old
>dimmer switch.  He wouldn't admit to what he was doing down their.  It had
>two wires.  Hot and neutral no ground.  The one i bought today has 3 wires
>hot, neutral and ground.  I am using an old capacitor from a 25 year old
>t.v.  It says on it 564J (S) and under that it says 200 x.  i am not sure
>what that means? I am also using the condenser from one of the automobile
>ignition coils i bought.  I have a dual ignition coil setup.  I was down
>stairs messing with it and all of a sudden a half foot arc yes that is 6
>inches just pops out of the middle of the ignition coil after that i drop
>the insulated screwdriver a bunch of sparks start crackling from some place
>that i can't remember.  I turned of the power switch the dimmer switch and
>unplugged the thing and discharged the capacitor.  then i sat down and
>about passed out because i was trying so hard to figure out how the heck
>that happened.  I inspected the spring terminals where i had attached my
>capacitors and they had melted in half the capacitors appear to be fine
>although i have not checked that out.  Man that freaked me out..  Any
>comments would be appreciated
>Jeremiah
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