Re: Camera caps (fwd)

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Camera caps (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:21:53 -0700 (MST)
Approved: mod1-at-pupman-dot-com


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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:53:44 +1200
From: Matthew Mills <mattmills-at-mindless-dot-com>
Reply-To: mattmills-at-mindless.antispam-dot-com
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Camera caps

Reminds me, Once I was silly enough to hold a small cap in my hand rated at
about 500V and 2mfd or so from a tv and charge it up with the output from a
small desktop negative Ion generator.  Of course the cap built up sufficient
charge that a spark jumped from the end terminals to my hand with the result
that I got thrown 6 feet across the room and landed against the wall  (from
just a tiny cap!!) that taught me!

Matt.

Tesla List wrote:

> ----------
> From:  Basura, Brian [SMTP:brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com]
> Sent:  Friday, March 27, 1998 12:05 PM
> To:  'Tesla List'
> Subject:  RE: Multi-layered Secondary
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been bit by one of those little camera caps. I DON'T EVER WANT IT
> TO HAPPEN AGAIN!!!  If I remember correctly it was 400v -at- ?mfd.  I'll
> look tonight for the rating.
>
> Regards,
> Brian D. Basura
> USITG - Manager, Technical Support
> (818)777-0979
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > ......................................................................
> > .
> > .                personal email: gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com
> > .
> > .          personal web page: http://www-dot-netherworld-dot-com/~gomez
> > .
> > ......................................................................
> > .
> >
> >



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