Re: Build own capacators

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 12/15/05 3:57:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Original poster: tesla popp <teslas_lab@xxxxxxxxx>

>Matt, you're missing the real point: HOMEMADE CAPS
>SUCK!
>Excuse me for being so blantent, but if you can tell
>me even ONE instance where a home capacitor has
>Out-Preformed, Outlasted, or been "More Compact" than
>the cd942 MMC (when made properly), I will belive that
>there is a future for the homemade cap!

I am not missing what you call the "real point" . I was merely 
pointing out that there is more than one significant "point": that 
being that there is more to what motivates some humans than just efficiency.

<;-)

>Yes I AM stepping on some peoples toes here, but it's
>NOT because Im an a**hole.

Oh No? ? I guess one needs a much longer personal temporal axis to 
appreciate different aspects of creativity.

> It's because I've wasted
>TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY building my own caps, only to
>have them fail!  I do care about the well being of the
>list members and I know how much it sucks to have a
>capacitor fail.  Please take my word on this, MAKE AN
>MMC!


For the majority for whom efficiency is their sole motivating factor, 
your suggestion is right on the mark.

>Im sorry to offend you who have lasting homemade caps,
>but I push my coils (and there caps) very hard,  I
>just ran one of my twins for 48 minuts.  The only
>thing that got warm was the tranny, THE MMC REMAINED
>COLD!  A run of 30+ minutes is very common here and
>only the cd942 MMC has been flawless and lasted in
>this area.

BRAVO! BUT it is irrelevant to the point I was trying to make. 
Someday you may understand why my neighbor has more personal pride in 
his horribly inefficient hand-made replica of a 1903 Oldsmobile with 
tiller steering than he does in the Mercedes that he bought new off 
the lot last year, or why one of my grandsons is building a 
wood-planked sailboat.(with hand-sewn canvass and hemp rope lines)


Coiler Forever: Jeremiah Popp

PS: Cake mix won't EXPLODE and hurt you if you cook it
to long.

Have you ever seen a flour mill explosion?


Matt D.

You might check out Maslow's work on the differences in what motivates people.