Re: good MMC? (different than first)

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Jonathon,

Ceramic caps won't work.  The dielectric is too lossy and with quickly heat up
and fail.  Only high current metalized polypropylene caps work.  They have very
low loss, high curent handling, and can take high voltages.  Maybe see:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MMCInfo/mmcinfo.htm
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MMCInfo/good-bad.txt

Cheers,

        Terry



At 07:17 PM 3/12/2001 -0500, you wrote: 
>
> Hello, looking thru the mouser catalog (p272 of new catalog) , i found some 
> caps that i thought might work for a MMC. 
>       First off though, is   1000pf = 1 uf  ?  i'm not too sure on 
> capacitance values.  plus, what is the symbol (letter) for it? (like V, A...)
>
>       here's the specs.   
>
> Ceramic Disc Capacitors 
> 1000 Volt    Tolerance: +/- 10%  Temp Coeff.: SL 
>
> 1000 pf 
> 16 Dia. Max  (16 what???) 
> $.31 for 1-199 
> $.28 for 200-399 
> $.18 for < 399 
>
>
> or 
>
>
> 6000V 
> 100pf 
> 16 Dia. Max  (16 what???) 
> $.65 for 1-199 
> $.43 for 200-399 
> $.36 for > 399 
>
> Would the 1000v ones work in a setup like this:? 
>
>      
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> |--| 
>
> |- 
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> ----|                                                                       
> |-------- 
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>      
> -||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--||--|
> |--| 
>
> |- 
>   
> I have 2 sets of 20 in series, w/ those sets in parallel.  this should give 
> me 20,000V 
> and 1000pf right? or not? any help would be greatly appreciated. 
>
> Jonathon