Re: Another MMC cap candidate (UK)

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• Subject: Re: Another MMC cap candidate (UK)
• From: wwl-at-netcomuk.co.uk (Mike Harrison) (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 10:55:13 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

On Sat, 05 Jun 1999 08:08:25 -0600, you wrote:

>Original Poster: "Reinhard Walter Buchner" <rw.buchner-at-verbund-dot-net> 
>
>Hi Alan, all,
>
>A little quicker (and longer) response this time ;o)).
>
>>Original Poster: Alan Sharp <AlanSharp-at-compuserve-dot-com>
>>I've been following the correspondence on multi-mini- caps.
>>And I was very impressed by the performance of Alex Crow's
>>coil at the UK teslathon.
>
>Very nice pictures on Mikeīs site. I hope we will get around
>to organizing a Teslathon, here in Germany, soon. Big
>compliment to all those shown. I esp. liked Vivianīs plexiglas
>SRSG. Great work Vivian!! You seem to be able to find
>LOTS of plexiglas for cheap ;o)).
>
>I noticed you guys were running the MMC in parallel with
>some saltwater caps (if I made it out correctly) on the 9.5"
>coil. Did you try running the coil soley on MMCs (i.e: w/o
>the SW caps attached)? Even though the capacitance would
>have been lower, the performance should increase, because
>SW caps are very lossy. This will noticeably reduce the
>possible spark length.
No - the SW caps were for RF filtering, not part of the main cap.

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