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Re: Halloween night, CP cap {con,de}struction



Yeah, they went "BOOM".  They are sealed up PVC containers and they burst.
They were on my roof, so there was no one around.  The sparks were between
4 and 6 feet, but I haven't measured them really.  It's not too bad for a
first attempt, but I'll have to spend a bit of time getting the thing
tweaked out.  I used the commercial caps because they were compact and I
expected them to be good and robust. 

Chip

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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: Jonathan Bazemore <jpbazemo-at-ouray.cudenver.edu> 
> 
> 
>    Hello Chip,
> 
>           Too bad about your capacitors--you mean they actually blew up,
like
> bombs or something?  Maybe some kind of plastic cage, that you could see
> through to inspect the operation, should be placed over caps like this for
> added
> 
> safety?
> 
>         Anyway, I was wondering how long your sparks were?  And after seeing
> the sturdy construction of your homemake capacitors, were you just curious
> about
> 
> the commercial caps (to use them)?
> 
>        I guess one could conclude that commercial caps work quite well, but
> are
> not
> good for long-term applications heavily requiring cooling, etc.?
> 
>       Well, keep up the, err, interesting work!  ;-)
> 
>