RE: "Plate" Capacitors

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Original poster: "Duke, Ronn (CCI-San Diego CCC) by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Ron.Duke-at-cox-dot-com>


Sorry to hear about your NST. You might want to try to unpot that bad boy
and bring it back to life. It just may be a carbon track shorting out. At
least re-melt the tar and see if that works. (Lots of info in the archives
on this). If you're adventurous, you could try to rewind it, either using it
as an NST or at least a ballast core. I rewound a Franceformer 15/60 that I
had damaged during unpotting. (I kind of wanted to rewind it anyway, just to
see if I could). It came out real nice. It's now a 14/300.( Definitely a
SNT, or at least an ENST). With all those new electronic NST's coming out,
you don't see those heavy duty cores anymore. It would be a crime against
Tesla to use it to keep one of your trash cans from blowing over.   Just a
thought.

Keep on coilin, 

Sparky
 

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	Sent:	Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:13 AM
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	Subject:	"Plate" Capacitors

	Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

	I was going to post this after I finished testing but my 15000v/60ma
NST 
	died( I just bought it like 2 weeks ago and didn't use it for a TC
yet, the 
	guy at the place won't give me a refund either.) Well any way, my
idea was to 
	use disposable plastic party plates for a capacitor. I put it
together with 4 
	plastic plates per dielectric layer, giving me around 50mil. I
think. I 
	calculated 9 foil plates for .005uf. So what do you guys think? I'll
have 
	these tested as soon as I can pick up some 12000v/60ma NST( for
free, but the 
	guy at that NST place said they've been sitting there for years so
he's not 
	sure they work.)