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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: BIG Capacitors
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 23:40:38 -0600
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From: Edward V. Phillips [SMTP:ed@alumni.caltech.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 1998 11:37 AM
To: tesla@pupman.com
Subject: Re: BIG Capacitors
"Ed- eletrolytics are really lousy for fast pulse-discharge work.
1. they have high-self-inductance, which slows down their discharge time
too much for 1uS pulse times. Most pulse-discharge research is looking
for very high peak power, and the narrower you can get your pulse, the
higher the peak power for a given stored energy.
2. they have high effective series resistance, limiting their discharge
current and thus, discharge time."
Agreed. All I said was that the discharge would be spectacular,
and to my way of thinking it is. But, all things are relative.....
Did manage to weld a screwdriver to the top terminal screws on a
bank of 4 of those capacitors.
Ed