Re: used Maxwell Caps, MMC, new pulse

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>

Kevin,

I have one. I haven't used it too much, but it works well. It does however
heat up a little running a TC with a 15/120. I haven't pushed it to see what
it can take, it was too expensive.

Jonathan Peakall

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Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: used Maxwell Caps, MMC, new pulse


> Original poster: "makinglightning comcast by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <makinglightning-at-comcast-dot-net>
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> I have recently seen on EBAY, and several times in the past, these .03uf
> 35kv pulse caps by Maxwell. 25ka peak, 20a rms, 500pps rep rate, design
life
> 3.0e+08, 20nh inductance, 15% rated voltage reversal and 50% max voltage
> reversal, I am not familiar with the last two specs. I have seen them sold
> by Alltronics mostly and by this guy now on ebay.
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> http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1714619842
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> http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1720076057
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> You can view a pdf spec sheet at www.alltronics-dot-com under capacitors,
> capacitor specials,
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> My question, with so many of these sold in the past, there must be people
on
> this list that have had experience using these, can you tell us what kind
of
> a coil you used them on and what kind of performance and life did you get
> out of them. I know they are used and we do not know the life left on
them,
> but maybe someone here can give us a report and see how they compare to
> mmc's and buying completely new. They always seem to be in the $75-$100
> price range.
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