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Re: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
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To: tesla@pupman.com
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Subject: Re: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
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From: richard hull <rhull@richmond.infi.net>
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 08:06:12 -0500 (EST)
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Subscriber: rhull@richmond.infi.net Sat Feb 15 14:46:40 1997
At 10:25 PM 2/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> Subject: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
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>Subscriber: bert.hickman@aquila.com Thu Feb 13 22:11:37 1997
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:38:41 -0800
>From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@aquila.com>
>To: tesla@pupman.com
>Subject: Re: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
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>Tesla List wrote:
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>> Subscriber: knardell@mailhost.accesscom.net Tue Feb 11 22:30:48 1997
>> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:56:14 -0600
>> From: Kevin Nardelle <knardell@mailhost.accesscom.net>
>> To: mhammer@misslink.net
>> Subject: SW Bottle CAPACITORS EXPLODE!
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>> Ok I take back everything I said about SW Bottle caps not exploding, we blew
>> three tonight and one of them exploded with such fury my cool neighbor has a
>> cut under his eye from flying glass.
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>> They all blew and threw oil and glass over the room, I always kept mine in a
>> box but these were sitting on the table about 2 feet away from the coil so I
>> think that could be the problem.
>> On another note we did get 10 inches of spark from this tiny coil. The
>> winding legnth is 9 inches so we are doing ok.
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>> We both have decided to stop running the coils untill we make the poly caps.
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>> For all you guys that still use the saltwater capacitors be carefull!
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>> Regards,
>> Kevin Nardelle
Sometimes I think we all forget that even a medium coil makes use of
megawatt peak pulsed energy levels. These things are just machine gun-like,
belt fed, energy pumps. Regular materials are often just not acceptable for
pushing the envelope.
Richard Hull, TCBOR