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Re: bottle caps



Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jimmy,

Here is a Miller beer bottle with 50,000 volts DC across it...

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P5050008.jpg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P5050001.jpg

The nice lab X-ray power supply would not go any higher...  250kHz AC is
probably much harder on the glass given greater leakage and displacement
currents but those bottles are pretty tough!

Cheers,

	Terry


At 07:35 PM 5/30/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>has anyone tested any glass bottle capacitors at a
>high enough voltage for them to fail?
>
>=====
>JImmy
>
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