Re: Stats of my new capacitor

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• Subject: Re: Stats of my new capacitor
• From: Aric <acr-at-infinet-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:40:15 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

The LCR meter uses a "1V" wave.  Whether this is peak-peak or amplitude I
know not, but I suspect amplitude.
This cap will be one of four, wired in series, for Tesla coil use.  The
power supply is a 15 kV/60ma NST.

At 08:08 PM 10/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> 
>
>Hi Aric,
>          What voltage are you looking to apply across the cap? The 
>specs sound great!  Is it just one section or are there several in 
>series?
>
>Malcolm
>
>> Original Poster: Aric_C_Rothman-at-email.whirlpool-dot-com (Aric C Rothman) 
>> 
>>      I just finished taking readings of a new stack plate capacitor I 
>>      built.  I used a Quadtech precision LCR meter to take these 
>>      measurements.
>>      
>>      C = 42.5 nF
>>      DF = 0.0000759
>>      ESR = 818.73 microohms
>>      
>>      all measurements were taken at 100 kHz.
>>      

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