Re: Maxwell Capacitor abuse

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• Subject: Re: Maxwell Capacitor abuse
• From: "Megavolt Nick" <tesla-at-fieldfamily.prontoserve.co.uk> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 12:35:07 -0700
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Hi Adam,
               Maxwells ahhhh - I wish
It depends very much which type they are.  With all tank caps the crucial
thing is the Ipeak not the Vpeak therefore you should be fine up to a few
kVA as the V peak off a 15kV neon is no where near 45kV (35kV tops).
The maxwell data sheets will give the I peak the caps are rated at and Terry
Fritz's excellent webpage
(http://www.peakpeak-dot-com/~terryf/tesla/misc/MMCPower4.html) will tell you
how to calculate the Ipeak in your tank circuit.
Personally I'm a bit biased against Maxwells as I've seen a coil pull an
exra foot of arc off an mmc of the same cap value as a pair of 100kV
maxwells it had run before.  However whereas that mmc will probably die
after 100hours or so, the maxwells will keep it up almost forever.

Glowing with envy (or is that just corona?)
Nick Field


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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 2:14 AM
Subject: Maxwell Capacitor abuse


> Original Poster: Adam <adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net>
>
>
> I have purchased some Maxwell Labs capacitors rated 40kV and 45kV, and I'm
> wondering if it is safe to use these with my 12kV NST bank, or if I need
to
> series-parallel connect 4 of them for an 80kV+ rating.  Anybody here blown
a
> Maxwell?  I haven't read about too many of these failing, but I thought
I'd
> ask, just to be on the safe side.
>
> -Adam
> adamsmith-at-mediaone-dot-net
>
>
>

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