RE: Warning Desasterous MMC failures, Rotton caps from Mouser.

["Garry Freemyer" <Garry-at-xxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Yeah, I was actually thinking along the lines of letting them know the batch
was bad. I'd never sue over it because too many people are too fast to sue
and I wouldn't reverse the charges because I really don't know for sure if
it is the caps or just because I should have known the outer shell was too
thin. The first one that blew should have given me a clue.

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Subject: RE: Warning Desasterous MMC failures, Rotton caps from Mouser.


Original poster: "Atkinson, Chip" <CAtkinson-at-Circadence-dot-com> 

I second Terry's opinion.  We should consider the long-term effects of
complaints rather than the short-term satisfaction.  Tesla coil usage is not
your normal cap usage and you'd have trouble getting vendors to take back
the caps if they knew what you were using them for. 

Condenser Products used to sell TC caps to private parties but do not now
because of lawsuit threats from exploding caps.

Chip Atkinson
List owner, 
Tesla list.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:53 AM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Warning Desasterous MMC failures, Rotton caps 
> from Mouser.
> 
> 
> Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
> 
> At 09:52 AM 11/22/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> snip...
> >
> >I bought these in my bulk buy earlier this summer. They cost 
> 1.45 each, they
> >have a dv/dt of 4200, and they have a hefty expoxy potted 
> package. Others
> >who bought these got a dramatic increase in streamer length 
> when switching
> >from saltwater caps to these. However, the minimum order is 
> 25 caps as I
> >recall, so you'll end up paying about $35-40 for a box. You 
> could get two
> >strings of 5.5nF -at- 24kVDC for half of what you paid for 
> those crap mouser
> >caps. I suggest you write mouser a nasty letter and move on. snip...
> 
> I guess I would suggest NOT writing a nasty letter to mouser. 
>  They just
> sell the caps and are not responsible for how they are made or used.
> Remembering how the commercial cap sources dried up after coilers
> complained about them, I would fear that MMC suppliers may 
> get the word we
> are just going to blow them up and then yell at them.  Good 
> or bad, anyone
> selling MMC caps to us is a resource we should cherish and do 
> our best to
> maintain.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Terry
> 
>