Re: bulk buy of super caps?

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <presence-at-churchofinformationwarfare-dot-org>

If you want a 100 watt resistor, you do not string together 400 1/4 watt
resistors. I've examined some charts and have seen that a15kv 0.05uF MMC
might be as few as 4 sets of parallel capacitors. That is not exacly the
equivalent of high current construction. Also, I was not speaking on the
"average commercial" ebay special. It seems all garbage on ebay is touted as
"tesla coil capacitor" these days.

MMCs sounds exceptional and I will probably make on myself. However I'd like
to see what a truly high performance capacitor can do when designed ground
up for Tesla Coil use can do. Maybe nothing at all. Have you tried it
yourself?

KEN

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Subject: Re: bulk buy of super caps?


> Original poster: "Mike Nolley by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<nolleym-at-willamette.edu>
>
> If you really need fast rise times and wide copper ribbons, these can be
> manufactured with the MMC method as well, at
> a quite reduced price from your average commercially bought pulse cap (in
> the thousands of dollars, usually).
> Finn Hammer has just such a cap, but I forgot where his website is.  The
> performance of multi-mini caps is all but
> indistinguishable from commercial pulse caps when many strings are wired
in
> parallel.  Essentially, the individual
> components that make up an MMC *are* high performance pulse capacitors,
> rated for TC service--they happen to be less
> expensive because they are manufactured in large quantities, not custom
> made, as was the case with larger TC rated
> pulse caps.
>
>             --Mike
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