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RE: Commercial Caps for Tesla Applications
There was actually more to the problem than just that. Some of the caps
were defective in the first place and blew up. Apparently they were willing
to work with the people who had the problems until one or two people started
threatening them with legal action and being rather unpleasant. This was
probably the genesis of their policy.
Personally, I wasn't too awfully impressed with the quality of the caps. I
had two blow up (loud, like 1/2 an M-80). I wasn't running them too hard I
thought. I was running them about 500bps at 14,400 volts. I was under the
impression that the TC caps were designed for Tesla Coil service and that
they were therefore capable of handling the resulting resonant rise, etc.
If I remember correctly, I even had a safety gap across them. Oh, the other
thing is that they were cylindrical and thus resistant to a fair amount of
pressure. There was no air space in them, so when they blew, they really
blew. The home made rolled cap that I toasted had a bunch of air space at
the top, and when it went, it was just quiet gurgling.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:13 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Commercial Caps for Tesla Applications
Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
In a message dated 8/16/00 11:18:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
> By the way I live about
> 10-12 miles from Condensor Products Corp. Unless your a buisness or can
> convince them that you know what you are doing they will not sell Tesla
> Caps. to private individuals. I have been reviewing some of the old
> Tesla List Archives and from what I have read they did sell to private
> individuals at one time. I have been messing around with high voltage
> for 13 years Im still here and they told me "NO".
> Best Regards Jeff KD4LYH
Jeff,
Yes, Condenser products sold to individuals until some of the buyers
of their caps overvolted them (unknowingly), and blew them up and
then blamed Condenser products.
Cheers,
John Freau