Re: Still confused on LTR sized Caps

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>


You can only get this rapid charging with very hi-Q factor (plastic
dielectric) pulse duty caps with very low inductance.  Too much self
inductance in the plate design and you are correct -- you can't.

Best regards,

Dr. Resonance




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Subject: RE: Still confused on LTR sized Caps


> Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
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> Secondly, why are LTR sized caps used in the
> >first place and what are their benefits?
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> LTR caps are "Larger Than Resonanat" cap values that allow higher power to
> the system especially with sync rotary gaps.  With a rotary gap, you can
> charge about 2.5 times the cap to the same voltage to get 2.5 times the
> power.  The values and the number of Geek Group caps used for variuous
> transformer gap configurations is at:
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> >>>>>>I'm still confused as to how a cap 2.5 times larger than the
standard
> resonant cap would be able to be fully charged
> in one 60Hz cycle with a synch rotary gap as opposed to a standard static
> gap. Anyone have some more "hard theory" regarding this???
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> Dan
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