New capacitor for Yottacoil

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Another CPW, another round of tesla coiling.  Last time the primary capacitor caught on fire, so I helped Michael and Austin cobble together a new one out of the Eurofarad caps the coil originally used.  I designed some bus bars and MITERS undergrads got them waterjet cut for us.


216 M6 socket head cap screws and 36 crimps later:


Successfully ran 2 evenings with 0 capacitor fires and 1 boost converter fire:


Comments from Blogger

Tim Blakely — April 19, 2023 at 06:48 AM
The parallel connections look way beefier than the serial...? Any thermal issues with the smaller bus bars?
Ben Katz — April 19, 2023 at 11:53 AM
The opposite, it's an 18s2p string. The little bus bars parallelize the two 18s strings. The serial bus bars are equivalent to 0 AWG wire.
Anonymous — April 22, 2023 at 05:21 PM
Enjoyable, have fun :)
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