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teslacoolguy

Tue Mar 18 2008, 09:16PM

Registered Member #1107 Joined: Thu Nov 08 2007, 10:09PM
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i built a 500j capacitor bank that i want to use for exploding wire and minor can crushing but i dont want to spend money on a hokey puck scr's so i need to make some kind of compact mechanical switch and i was wondering if anybody has made something like this or can give me suggestions on how to make one.

101111

Tue Mar 18 2008, 09:27PM

Registered Member #575 Joined: Sun Mar 11 2007, 04:00AM
Location: Norway
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I used some thin plexyglas that was bendable some wood and a rail of aluminum and a big bolt as electrodes.

Farly simple and efficient. I would recommend to go to Tesladownunders page and look at the switch he uses on one of the capacitor banks he got.

Andyman

Wed Mar 19 2008, 01:03AM

Registered Member #1083 Joined: Mon Oct 29 2007, 06:16PM
Location: Upland, California
Posts: 256

Check out this topic.

My current switch is the 7th or 8th post down. It works really well, and I don't think it bounces at all. I don't have an oscilloscope to be sure though.

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