Re: MMC Bulk Buy V.2.0

["Malcolm Watts" <M.J.Watts-at-massey.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

On 10 Aug 00, at 18:18, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Aric_C_Rothman-at-email.whirlpool-dot-com 
> 
>      You might want to consider the source I used when I did a group buy of 
>      caps for MMC use.
>      
>      Seacor makes a line of PP/foil caps with characteristics suitable for 
>      TC use.  I was able to purchase caps rated for 0.047uF, 1600VDC for 
>      $0.79 each.  I received limited feedback from list members that these 
>      caps worked well in their TCs.  My supply was damaged in a fire (not 
>      related to TCs) and I was unable to try them myself :( 

I've just demo'd a TC using an MMC made of these caps all day 
on an intermittent basis. I'd say about 2 hours total running 
time and the MMC was running about 1.5kV below its DC rating. 
There was a tiny bit of warm air detecable in the lunchbox 
which houses the cap but was probably due mostly to the 
relatively thin cap leads. A coil never fails to please at an 
open day. For the first time I got a large lab to operate in.

Regards,
malcolm
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