Tuesday, April 18, 2023

New capacitor for Yottacoil

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: