Re: microwave oven capacitors

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Justin,

What you have to worry about is the oven caps getting so hot that they
explode!  I suppose you could use them if you put enough of them in series
to safely dissapate the heat the mylar dielectric will generate.  If you use
them, put them in some sort of a closed box to catch the oil and cap guts if
they do explode.  Better to save for a MMC.

--Steve
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Subject: Re: microwave oven capacitors


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> I was just curious, how lossy would you guess that these kind of caps
would
> be. I don't have a lot of cash, so an MMC is kind of out of the question.
I
> currently am using two 50 kV .002 uF plastic capacitor caps in parallel
with
> my 15kV 60mA NST. This is about 40% of what is should be for good
resonance
> Would a capacitor built out of these things allow my coil to perform
better
> than it is now despite their lossy dielectric?
>                                         Justin
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