Re: MMC take2

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• Subject: Re: MMC take2
• From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:59:42 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Tesla List wrote:
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> Original Poster: "christopher boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Alright as I understand it someone recently took a whole bunch of
> little caps and hooked them together for TC duty. They called it the
> MMC (Another obscure acronym?) i think.
>  I have a resource for a whole herd of brand new computer grade caps.
> The values are 1399mFd -at- 450 VDC, how many do I need? I can probably
> get a couple hundred. Any ideas?
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Chris,

Those are electrolytic capacitors - they will not work in Tesla coil
applications because they are made to work with DC (Tesla coils must use
non-polarized caps capacitors). For an MMC, you'd need to use
polypropylene film type pulse or snubbing capacitors.

-- Bert --

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