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From: Basura, Brian [SMTP:brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com]
Sent: Friday, March 27, 1998 12:05 PM
To: 'Tesla List'
Subject: RE: Multi-layered Secondary
Hello,
I've been bit by one of those little camera caps. I DON'T EVER WANT IT
TO HAPPEN AGAIN!!! If I remember correctly it was 400v -at- ?mfd. I'll
look tonight for the rating.
Regards,
Brian D. Basura
USITG - Manager, Technical Support
(818)777-0979
> From: Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 5:01 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: Multi-layered Secondary
>
> Jim Lux wrote:
>
> > I suspect that the 180 Hz system is basically in the same category.
> The
> > stored energy in 15 kH at 55 mA is about 20 Joules. Potentially
> lethal, but
> > probably not (it's about what is stored in the on camera flash unit
> in one
> > of those disposable cameras, which darkroom operators get zapped by
> all the
> > time).
>
> Not to pick nits here, Jim, but I have a hard time believing that
> those
> little
> cameras store 20 joules. Even if the cap was 200uF at 200VDC, (small
> for a
> photoflash cap, but larger than what I remember seeing in the dozen or
> so
> disposable strobes I've got lying about somewhere) you'd only get 4J.
>
> Out of curiosity, does anyone have one of them handy to read off some
> values?
>
> I have a bunch of them burried in storage somewhere. I was going to
> use
> them
> in a costume...
>
> -Gomez
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