Re: Can crushing (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:56:00 -0800
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>, hvlist <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Can crushing (fwd)


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> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:53:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: Peter Lawrence <Peter.Lawrence@xxxxxxx>
> To: hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Can crushing (fwd)
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> Colin,
>       my math is already suspect (!), but it sounds like you're half way
> there to a coin-shrinker, which IIRC takes 4000 to 8000 J.
>
> personally I'll probably pass on trying a can-crusher or coin-shrinker,
> if a cap blows you're in big do-do unless you've build a welded steel
> containment box, but looking at others' web pics its pretty cool...

Caps don't blow that often. (if ever)
I use a standard cement block with a 12x12" cement paver on top(as lid) for
containing the shrapnel from coin shrinking.


>
> I wonder whats the technology in the defib caps verses MMC caps
> .5 * 35   * 6**2   -> 630 J
> .5 *  .15 * 1.5**2 ->   0.17 J
> it would take an enormous number of MMC caps to build a coin-shrinker or
> even a can-crusher...

indeed it would.


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