Fighter
posted this
18 August 2025
Posting updates.
Cutting the aluminum disks is finished:
Seems the Chinese manufacturer added 3 extra aluminum disks (they're 63 instead of 60 as I ordered):
This is how a segment of the customized capacitor looks like:
Ignore the copper wires and the screwdriver, I'm using them to make sure the holes I make in the disks are aligning with each other.
Note: the carbon fiber tube is electrically conductive so I needed to add a few layers of scotch tape over it to stop it electrically connecting all the disks. The conductivity is expected but I didn't thought about that when I ordered them, I was thinking only about their mechanical strength.
This is a close-up of the segment:
And here are two disks ready to be added to the assembly:
The process of preparing them is painfully slow, preparing two disks like in the image above take about one hour including cutting the teflon sheet for each of them.
It's really testing my patience a lot.
But I must work very carefully to make sure there will be no electrical contact between the copper and aluminum disks.
Drilling the holes in the aluminum disks is easy but the copper disks are again difficult to work with, my drilling bits are very ineffective. It takes 20-25 minutes of work to drill a hole in a copper disk.
Now looking back at the work required I'm thinking maybe asking the Chinese manufacturer to use CNC to do what I do now would be preferable even if the cost would've been much higher.
So I'm continuing working on them when I find time but the process is slow and it feels like it will take forever.
But I think it deserves the effort so I can continue with the next stage of this experiment.
Fighter
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