Re: Exploding wire (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:17:35 -0800
From: Peter Lawrence <Peter.Lawrence@xxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Exploding wire (fwd)




>>Hello All,
>>
>>
>>
>>I just bought 1400ft of .008, 32AWG piano wire. My Capacitor charge will be
>>14.3uf @ 40KV, I could do up to 50KV but the history of the Geek Mighty Caps
>>is unknown. How many feet can I blow of this wire? Surely this would be more
>>spectacular then a copper wire. Am I in the right ballpark for gauge? I
>>would like to reach 8 feet ~ 2.5 Meters. The caps are rated at near 9KJ at
>>full charge.
> 

hmmm, vaporized metal is vaporized metal, not sure why anyone would expect
iron to be much different from anything else...

but then, I can't actually predict the outcome either, so let us know how
it turns out !!!

-Pete Lawrence.