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BIG Capacitors




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From:  Bert Pool [SMTP:bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com]
Sent:  Saturday, February 21, 1998 4:12 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: BIG Capacitors


> From:  Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
> Sent:  Friday, February 20, 1998 12:37 PM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Re: BIG Capacitors
> 
> Bert Pool wrote:
> 
> > > From:  Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
> > > It's less than you would expect.  I built a 1.4 kJ bank out of Aerovox
> > > high voltage filter caps, and could not get discharge times faster than
> > > some hundreds of milliseconds.  It was loud, but dangerously so.
> 
> That should have read "not dangerously so"- I really must proof-read my
> mail
> more carefully.
> 
> > > Later, I found a single pulse-dischage cap beautifully designed for
> > > low-inductance, fast-pulse work, of about 1.5 kJ at roughly the same
> > > voltage.  Its discharge times were on the order of less than 1uS with
> > > a rather lousy switch and transmission design, and the noise was
> > > stunning.
> > >
> > > -G
> > >
>  
> > People, you should know Greg well enough by now to know that he
> > loves to use words literally, so when he says the noise was stunning,
> > it was literally so.  OK Greg, how many people did you stun, and how
> > many of them were able to get up off the ground and walk away
> > unassisted? <grin>
> 
> Um, that G was for "Gomez", my real-life and net-nickname, not "Greg".
> Sorry if I misled.
> 
> The noise, even through hearing protectors, was painfully loud.  The
> shockwave
> could be felt as a physical blow to the chest (comparable to a soft pat
> with the
> flat of someone's hand) from ten feet away.
> 
> The fellow I just acquired my "banger" from told me the same thing about
> this
> machine, only he said the blow felt like a punch in the chest from
> twenty feet
> away!  (yikes)
> 
> -Bill "Gomez" Lemieux
> 
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> 
> 

Sorry about the mistaken identity - good thing I'm not testifying 
before Kenneth Starr!  ;>)
Bert Pool
TCBFW
bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com