Re: Build own capacators

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Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ" <christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>

I agree mucho, been there, go MMC!
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Sent: Wed Dec 14 13:25:00 2005
Subject: Re: Build own capacators

Original poster: tesla popp <teslas_lab@xxxxxxxxx>

Just a little story: I used to defend all the homemade
caps with a vengance, totally set against the idea the
of spending money.  I had just completed my 14th
homemade capacitor (polyethylene-60 mills thick) and
waited 5 days to drive the air out.  Upon powering the
cap with 15kvAC.  I was delited to see such great
preformance from my first run with the cap.

Only 10 seconds into the run "BANG"... I killed the
cap!  As the oil became darker, my concept of
capacitors melted away and I told myself "There MUST
be something better, something more DEPENDABLE"

I frantically began to search the web for lastng
solutions and I came across something I had never
heard of, It was called an M.M.C.,  I decided to go
and spend a bit of $ and see if this thing called a
Multi Mini Capacitor was really all that great.

Let me tell you that since that fateful day, I have
never even considered building another homemade
capacitor, NEVER!  The cd942 series capacitor is THE
BEST CAPACITOR for tesla coil use, PEROID!
It will OUT PREFORM and OUTLAST *ANY* other
comercially available capacitor for the price.  It is
also MORE COMPACT than even some of the maxwells out
there.

Just a thought...
Coiler Forever: Jeremiah Popp



--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 > Original poster: robert heidlebaugh
 > <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 >
 > Dave luke; Home built capacitors are made by many
 > coilers, Some better than
 > others. The "salt water cap"  is the most common and
 > the cheapest to build.
 > They tend to be large and work well.  Glass Plate
 > capacitors are heavy and
 > the glass tends to fail. Old window pains with
 > aluminum flashing plates 1
 > inch smaller than the glass pains worked for me,
 > They are heavy and not
 > movable, I use 4 mill 12" polyethylene bag stock. 6
 > layers wraped around 10"
 > flashing plates ( 12 mills of thickness) . Tied with
 > string in an oil bath.
 > I am well pleased. They are bulkey , full of oil and
 > deliver a lot of
 > current. Mica is expensive and not available to most
 > of us so not in common
 > use , but I guess it would be like glass plates hard
 > to move.
 >     Robert   H
 > --
 >
 >
 >  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
 >  > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:59:23 -0700
 >  > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
 >  > Subject: Build own capacators
 >  > Resent-From: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
 >  > Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:02:59 -0700
 > (MST)
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "Del" <davlukco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 >  >
 >  > Hello,
 >  > Newbie here--
 >  > I have a source for accurate thickness sheets of
 > mica up
 >  > to 12 inches square.  Didn't Tesla build his own
 >  > capacators?  Something to do with current storage
 > and temperature?
 >  >
 >  > How hard are they to build today?  Would the mica
 > allow for very
 >  > large capactors to be built?
 >  > Thank you,
 >  > Dave Luke
 >  > ----- Original Message -----
 >  > From: <mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>Tesla list
 >  > To: <mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
 >  > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:27 PM
 >  > Subject: Re: Cheesehead Teslathon
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ"
 >  >
 >
<<mailto:christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>
 >  >
 >  > DC, please save me one.
 >  >
 >  > Rgs,
 >  > Christopher
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 >  > <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
 >  > Sent: Mon Dec 12 19:07:49 2005
 >  > Subject: Cheesehead Teslathon
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "D.C. Cox"
 >  >
 > <<mailto:resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > We still have some DVDs remaining of the
 > Cheesehead Teslathon with
 >  > over 40 minutes of DRSSTCs, classic TCs, and lots
 > of other high
 >  > voltage goodies.
 >  >
 >  > Steve Ward's big SSTC, Chris (from Phoenix)
 > hauled in a bunch of
 >  > smaller coils with amazing performance (12 inch
 > sec with a 40 inch
 >  > long spark!!).
 >  >
 >  > Dr. Resonance
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >