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Multi-layered Secondary
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From: Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 5:01 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Multi-layered Secondary
Jim Lux wrote:
> I suspect that the 180 Hz system is basically in the same category. The
> stored energy in 15 kH at 55 mA is about 20 Joules. Potentially lethal, but
> probably not (it's about what is stored in the on camera flash unit in one
> of those disposable cameras, which darkroom operators get zapped by all the
> time).
Not to pick nits here, Jim, but I have a hard time believing that those
little
cameras store 20 joules. Even if the cap was 200uF at 200VDC, (small
for a
photoflash cap, but larger than what I remember seeing in the dozen or
so
disposable strobes I've got lying about somewhere) you'd only get 4J.
Out of curiosity, does anyone have one of them handy to read off some
values?
I have a bunch of them burried in storage somewhere. I was going to use
them
in a costume...
-Gomez
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