Re: Good Tesla Coil Cap

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Original poster: "Kevin Ottalini by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ottalini-at-mindspring-dot-com>

CJ:
    Lots of people use this particular Maxwell cap for TC use ... there seem
to be lots of
them on the surplus market.  Alltronics was asking $200.00 each in-store, so
$61.00
is good.

I know for a fact that those particular caps came out of a medical
spark-acoustic
machine used to pulverize kidney stones.  A massive HV charge was dumped
across
a gap with a focus cone and the concentrated sound energy was aimed at the
stone.

When I looked at these caps in-store, they were very oily from having been
immersed
in a tank.  This apparently is not unusual for these caps ... the box of
brand-new ones
I got a while back (surplus) were floating in leaked oil from shipping via
air (the altitude
got to them).

I have additional technical (but not TC - yet) info about this cap, alone
and in an array
of four in parallel on my website (as much as is available) and comparisons
against
other types of pulse caps.  I was unable to find an exact datasheet, but
that series is
all very  similar:

http://ottalini.home.mindspring-dot-com/caps.html

Best,
    Kevin

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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Good Tesla Coil Cap


> Original poster: "CJ Moore by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<wizard1234-at-home-dot-com>
>
> Along the lines of an earlier post, is this cap any good for tc use?
please say
> yes.. as I already bought it.... It will be in a 9kv 120 ma system. (and
> hopefully a SRSG)
>
> http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1611077340
>