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Re: Broadcast Capacitors
Subject:
Re: Broadcast Capacitors
Date:
Thu, 03 Apr 1997 05:41:02 EST
From:
wb8jkr-at-juno-dot-com (Mark S Graalman)
To:
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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On Wed, 02 Apr 1997 07:09:08 -0600 Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> writes:
>Subject:
> Re: Broadcast Capacitors
> Date:
> Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:26:32 +1200
> From:
> "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
>Organization:
> Wellington Polytechnic, NZ
> To:
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>
>
>Mark, Robert et al,
> Thanks for the input on the caps.....
>
>> These sound like mica capacitors and will work extremely well in the
>
>> tank circuit of a vac tube T.C. as well as RF bypass for the plate
>> transformer. They can also be used for the system cap in disruptive
>
>> discharge T.C.'s if you series parallel a whole whack of them. I
>did
>> this. I took 30 units of 0.002 mfd -at-12,500 volt peak broadcast
>> micas and arranged them in three groups of ten paralleled in series.
>
>> The net result is about 0.007 mfd at 37,500 peak and is employed in
>> my highly successful STC system using a single 15 k -at- 60 Ma neon.
>> I've achieved straight line discharges to 52 inches with this coil.
>>
>> If these are cheap enough, BUY THEM!!!!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> rwstephens
>
>You're going to hate me but I was actually given them. There must be
>around 30 or so of about 5 different values in the carton.
>
>Regards all,
>Malcolm
>
>
Face it guys, we must not be liv'in right.............
Mark Graalman