Re: Corson Pulse Capacitors

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Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>

My concern is your voltage  way over your rating so I would suggest
series/parallel combinations to get a high enough voltage and enough
capacitance for your TC. Even 13.6Kv x 1.414 = 19.23 Kv Pk with no safety.
Two is series is minimum to hold your voltage..
     Robert  H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:09:52 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Corson Pulse Capacitors
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 01:22:37 -0700
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 > Original poster: "Matthew Smith by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>
 >
 > Hi All
 >
 > I've done a bit of a gamble and have just bought nine pulse capacitors,
 > 2x1.5nF in series per can.  These are pulse rated at 300pps at 15kV (don't
 > know whether this is AC or DC).  A trawl through the archive shows that
 > someone had something similar back in 1995, but the thread didn't go on
 > long enough to be conclusive.  These caps don't look exactly new, but the
 > way some of them are packed would suggest that they may well be unused.
 >
 > These beasties were made by Corson Electric - Google can't find a site for
 > them, so I don't know if they're still going.
 >
 > 1) Does anyone think that these would be suitable for a tank cap?
 >
 > 2) Although steel-cased, should they be in a further steel box in case of
 > fragmentation?
 >
 > 3) If they are rated to 300pps, any break rate under this should be OK, 
true?
 >
 > 4) I'm proposing to use four 1:10 MOT's to give me 13.6kV (240-1-50 in); is
 > this getting a little too close to comfort to the 15kV rating?  If I use
 > each as a single capacitor, series jumpered (0.75nF -at- 30kV?), I can get a
 > total capacitance of 6.75nF.  However, if I jumper for parallel, I have
 > 27nF, but close on voltage tolerance?
 >
 > I notice that the terminals are all wired together - taking no chances!
 >
 > Any comments appreciated.
 >
 > Cheers
 >
 > M
 >
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