Re: Build own capacators

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Original poster: "Bob (R.A.) Jones" <a1accounting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I can't agree that its because they need to.
As you suggest, in a parody presumable of Mallory famous words,  its because
they can.

Continuing in the same theme.  After Mallory's body was found on Everest it
reignited the question of whether or not he had reached the summit.
Mallory's son John Mallory took an objective view of the implications: 'To
me the only way you achieve a summit is to come back alive. The job is half
done if you don't get down again.'
Perhaps when building a primary cap the achievement is not just building one
but getting it to work for more than ten minutes. LOL
So the more certainty with which home made caps are denigrated the more
certain it is that someone will want to prove it wrong.

Robert (R. A.) Jones
A1 Accounting, Inc., Fl

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Subject: Re: Build own capacators


> Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
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> Jeremiah, Christopher, All,
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>      You are overlooking one very big point. There will always be
> those who will make their own caps just because they can and need to
> BECAUSE they can.. Just as most people will by a cake, and some will
> buy a cake mix, there will always be a few that, when they want a
> cake, will buy flour, sugar, milk, and eggs, not because of financial
> necessity or convenience, but because they just need to.
>
> Matt D.
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> In a message dated 12/14/05 7:59:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Original poster: "Hooper, Christopher AZ"
<christopher.az.hooper@xxxxxxxxx>
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> I agree mucho, been there, go MMC!
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wed Dec 14 13:25:00 2005
> Subject: Re: Build own capacators
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> Original poster: tesla popp <teslas_lab@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 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.
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> 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"
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> 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
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