[TCML] STUPID QUESTION OF THE DAY

[Lau, Gary]

The case is not a terminal; one uses the two terminals on the top.

I would ask - what exactly was it that your friend did with the cap?  If it was used as a tank cap in a Tesla coil, that would no doubt toast any good MO cap.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces at pupman.com [mailto:tesla-bounces at pupman.com] On
> Behalf Of Ed Phillips
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:44 PM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: [TCML] STUPID QUESTION OF THE DAY
>
>     I sent my only MO capacitor to a friend and he reports it shorted.
> Stupid question:  Are the connections between the two terminals on the
> top or between either of those and the case?  He tried the terminals on
> the top.  This was a pull from a working oven so the short seems
> surprising but who knows?  I'd just stuck the thing in a box and never
> checked it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed