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Re: A funny thing happened on the way.....



Hi Jon,

> Original Poster: "Jon Lagler" <rockcrawl-at-netzero-dot-net> 
> 
> 
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> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: A funny thing happened on the way.....
> 
> 
> > Original Poster: CTCDW-at-aol-dot-com
> >
> > Jon,
> >
> > thanks for the info on your coil...when your sparks died away, did they
> come
> > back on their own after a few seconds?
> 
> When it died, I would shut it off quickly (within 10 seconds). If I would
> turn it back on right away, it wouldn't work, but if I'd let it sit for a
> minute it would work again for a few seconds and then quit. I was really
> working my caps hard. I had halved the total number of caps in series to
> double the capacitance. I went from 60kvdc to 30kvdc rating and it heated up
> quickly.

There has to be something seriously wrong with the caps (type of 
dielectric perhaps?) for you to experience heating that quickly. 

Regards,
Malcolm

> >Mine was going in and out of this
> > behavior. The thing that upsets me the most about this is that this is a
> new
> > cap, and has maybe 30 mins of intermittent run time on it. It hasn't been
> run
> > for months, and never for more than 1 minute...It was literally 15 mins
> from
> > my handling the cap to it leaking, with no run time in between. I'm still
> not
> > convinced the cap is leaking, somehow, as there has been not one more drop
> of
> > oil on the cap or coil base.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> 
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