Re: cap material question

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

Its lossy. It will over heat. 

Mark 

In a message dated 6/10/01 11:43:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 


>
> I know most people use PE as their dielectric but, I was looking through a 
> page(http://www.datasync-dot-com/~ignatz/electro/teslacoil/platecap/homadecaps.h 
> tm) at the dielectric material graph section and I noticed how good mylar's 
> ratings were.  I know it must have been tried on a cap with a puncture 
> voltage of 7500 per mil  and a better dielectric strength than PE.  Has 
> anyone used mylar on a cap before?  I looked around and 
> http://www.discount-hydro-dot-com/mylar.asp 
> is selling mylar for pretty cheap.  Is this the right stuff?  Mylar seems 
> far too good to be true.  If anyone could shed some light on this subject 
> I'd appreciate it. 
>     Thanks, 
>          Will Daniels