Re: used Maxwell Caps, MMC, new pulse

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Original poster: "S.Gaeta by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sgtporky-at-prodigy-dot-net>

Kevin,

I have been using one of those capacitors with my 4.5" by 14" coil for about
a year now. I have probably fired up the coil about ten times in that
period, and the runs usually last about three minutes or  so. I am using 9KV
at 90mA, and my gap is a120bps sync rotary. A month ago, my secondary self
destructed. Just before this happened, I was getting 40" sparks to a
grounded target rod. I checked the value of the cap and it still reads
.03uf. I will wind another secondary to the exact same parameters as soon as
I am done with a radio project, so that I can abuse the cap some more.

Sue