Re: 120kV capacitors available

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• Subject: Re: 120kV capacitors available
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 06:36:35 -0600
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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: 120kV capacitors available
> Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 10:32 AM
> 
> Original Poster: HomerLea-at-aol-dot-com 
> 
> >         i wish we had stores like that around here..
> 
> I still have lots of HV energy discharge caps PCB free available cheap to

> anyone near the San Francisco Bay Area. BTW I have been meaning to ask,
Are 
> these caps supposed to be charged with a particular polarity or can you
stack 
> two of them case to case and use the two terminals as a 2x voltage cap
say + 
> and - from ground?
> jim heagy       homerlea-at-aol-dot-com 
> 

Series them up, by all means...
No inherent polarity.. It is the reversal of polarity on discharge that
shortens their life. The other thing is to charge reasonably quickly.. I
wouldn't use a 10 minute charging cycle, for instance...
> 

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