Re: Geek .15uF caps Was: "plate" capacitors

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi DK,

Good point. I haven't built an MMC before, so I could be off there (lead
length vs. lead spacing).
Terry, can you fill us in on lead spacing?

Thanks,
Bart A.

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "David Knaack by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dknaack-at-rdtech-dot-com>
>
> > Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> > The JavaMMC Designer should help you check this out for yourself. JavaMMC
> > uses the caps lead length as an input.
>
> Unless I misunderstand, I think thats the horizontal spacing,
> not the lead length.
>
> In that application, what does the item referring to the 'primary
> resistance' mean?  Resistance of the coil primary?  That should
> be very, very low, correct?
>
> Also, do you happen to have a ballpark figure for the capacitance
> of the Geek Group bucket capacitor?
>
> thanks
> DK