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RE: Microwave caps, ideas (fwd)



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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:11:34 -0400
From: "Breneman, Chris" <brenemanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Microwave caps, ideas (fwd)

I've used MO diodes and caps in a voltage multiplier as well, but the
capacitors themselves limited the output current.  The MO caps are in the
range of values to effectively limit hv in series.  I haven't blown a
diode yet.

Chris



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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:14:47 +0100
From: Chris Rutherford <chrismrutherford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Microwave caps, ideas (fwd)

I once used a microwave capacitors and diodes in a voltage multiplier
configuration. i.e. taking output of microwave transformer to produce +/-
5Kv i.e. 11KV potential.   For this type of supply to be useful you  have to
limit the output current with either an inductor or resistor.  If you don't
limit the output the diodes blow really easily.

Here is a similar system using smaller capacitors.  With this type of power
supply you also have to be careful not to destroy the output inductors.

Chris

On 7/7/07, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:32:08 +0000
> From: Jeff Behary <jeff_behary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Microwave caps, ideas (fwd)
>
> Scott,
>
> They work really well for the smaller antique Tesla Coils "Violet Ray"
> machines/etc.  The reason is that the original machines used waxed-paper
> caps that were rolled and formed around a self-induction coil between the
> bobbin heads and kind of "squashed to fit" inside of a hard rubber or
> bakelite housings.  These days there are no modern caps that are small
> enough to fit inside these units (can't "squash" a plastic cap too
> easy!)...by coincidence  the microwave caps normally fit well once removed
> from the metal cans and cut to size.  Normally one of these caps will make
> a
> dozen or more Violet Ray capacitors.
>
> I made a few of them this way before, there is a good photo of them next
> to
> my cat Io:
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/Articles/VioletRayConstruction.htm
>
> For this style Tesla Coil they work really well.
>
> Jeff Behary, c/o
> The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com
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