Capacitors

Hi Dear Readers! A comment made by Professor Siana on my Magnetic field post spoke of a room blowing up due to the large capacitors storing charge to power the magnets at Los Alamos Laboratory. I instantly thought of the large capacitor that we have in our lab that is patiently waiting for our 20 T pulse coil to be made. Note: pulsing coils are different than regular coils. Pulse coils need to be able to be cooled down very quickly. In fact, the world record for pulsing coils is circa 50 T. Significantly less than the world record on regular coils, recall it was circa 100 T (created by... Los Alamos Laboratory).

Anyhow, here is a photo of the capacitor. We have yet to test it. :)

Specifications: Capacitance- 64,000 microF ; Voltage- 2.83 kV




Below is also a YouTube video on the 100 T magnetic made by Los Alamos Laboratory.