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Re: Build own capacators



Original poster: tesla popp <teslas_lab@xxxxxxxxx>

Just a little story: I used to defend all the homemade
caps with a vengance, totally set against the idea the
of spending money.  I had just completed my 14th
homemade capacitor (polyethylene-60 mills thick) and
waited 5 days to drive the air out.  Upon powering the
cap with 15kvAC.  I was delited to see such great
preformance from my first run with the cap.

Only 10 seconds into the run "BANG"... I killed the
cap!  As the oil became darker, my concept of
capacitors melted away and I told myself "There MUST
be something better, something more DEPENDABLE"

I frantically began to search the web for lastng
solutions and I came across something I had never
heard of, It was called an M.M.C.,  I decided to go
and spend a bit of $ and see if this thing called a
Multi Mini Capacitor was really all that great.

Let me tell you that since that fateful day, I have
never even considered building another homemade
capacitor, NEVER!  The cd942 series capacitor is THE
BEST CAPACITOR for tesla coil use, PEROID!
It will OUT PREFORM and OUTLAST *ANY* other
comercially available capacitor for the price.  It is
also MORE COMPACT than even some of the maxwells out
there.

Just a thought...
Coiler Forever: Jeremiah Popp



--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: robert heidlebaugh
> <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dave luke; Home built capacitors are made by many
> coilers, Some better than
> others. The "salt water cap"  is the most common and
> the cheapest to build.
> They tend to be large and work well.  Glass Plate
> capacitors are heavy and
> the glass tends to fail. Old window pains with
> aluminum flashing plates 1
> inch smaller than the glass pains worked for me,
> They are heavy and not
> movable, I use 4 mill 12" polyethylene bag stock. 6
> layers wraped around 10"
> flashing plates ( 12 mills of thickness) . Tied with
> string in an oil bath.
> I am well pleased. They are bulkey , full of oil and
> deliver a lot of
> current. Mica is expensive and not available to most
> of us so not in common
> use , but I guess it would be like glass plates hard
> to move.
>     Robert   H
> --
>
>
>  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:59:23 -0700
>  > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  > Subject: Build own capacators
>  > Resent-From: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  > Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:02:59 -0700
> (MST)
>  >
>  > Original poster: "Del" <davlukco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > Hello,
>  > Newbie here--
>  > I have a source for accurate thickness sheets of
> mica up
>  > to 12 inches square.  Didn't Tesla build his own
>  > capacators?  Something to do with current storage
> and temperature?
>  >
>  > How hard are they to build today?  Would the mica
> allow for very
>  > large capactors to be built?
>  > Thank you,
>  > Dave Luke
>  > ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: <mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>Tesla list
>  > To: <mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:27 PM
>  > Subject: Re: Cheesehead Teslathon
>  >
>  > Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ"
>  >
>
<<mailto:christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > DC, please save me one.
>  >
>  > Rgs,
>  > Christopher
>  > --------------------------
>  > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
>  >
>  >
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Tesla list
> <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > To: <mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  > <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > Sent: Mon Dec 12 19:07:49 2005
>  > Subject: Cheesehead Teslathon
>  >
>  > Original poster: "D.C. Cox"
>  >
> <<mailto:resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > We still have some DVDs remaining of the
> Cheesehead Teslathon with
>  > over 40 minutes of DRSSTCs, classic TCs, and lots
> of other high
>  > voltage goodies.
>  >
>  > Steve Ward's big SSTC, Chris (from Phoenix)
> hauled in a bunch of
>  > smaller coils with amazing performance (12 inch
> sec with a 40 inch
>  > long spark!!).
>  >
>  > Dr. Resonance
>  >
>  >
>  >