Re: First Light

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Hhchicken1-at-aol-dot-com>

Aleks, 

>> Did you think of putting the caps under oil to keep them cool?? 
I may do that if they get too hot, they're oil-filled already.  If I can get 
hold of some cheap transformer oil I might immerse the whole tank supply 
circuit, but I'd rather keep it clean if possible. 

>>Also how much did you pay for your microwaves?? 
They were £5 each from the local dump :) 
There's a huge stock there so if I blow some components I can get more fairly 
easily. 
Nasty to drag home and dispose of tho :( You shoulda seen my room with the 
guts of four microwaves scattered about - my mum wasn't pleased :) 

Henry 


In a message dated 18/12/00 18:45:13 GMT Standard Time, Aleks-at-sn2.co.uk 
writes: 


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> Henry, 
>
>
> >Did the 
> >capacitors and diodes come from the microwaves you took the transformers 
> out 
> >of? If so, were both miocrowaves of the same design? 
> The transformers, capacitors and diodes all came from 2 Toshiba DeltaWave 
> microwaves I think, which I got from the local scrapyard 
>
> <Snip> 
>
> BTW, when running the circuit for extended periods of time (over a minute 
> or 
> two) the MOTs, Voltage doubler capacitors and especially the diodes get 
> quite 
> warm.  I don't intend to run it longer than 3 minutes anyway, so I should 
> be 
> safe but I'll let you know if anything blows.  I have placed the capacitors 
> in a box as a shrapnel shield. 
> I'll put up a page with some photos as soon as I can get some scanned in :) 
>
>
> I'd love to see them. 
>
> Did you think of putting the caps under oil to keep them cool??? 
>
> Also how much did you pay for your microwaves?? 
>
> Aleks Nowak 
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