Re: Secondary and MMC Caps

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Original poster: "Mark Broker by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mbroker-at-thegeekgroup-dot-org>

Use the LTR values - 18 caps for one 15/30 or 10 for 15/60.  The Geek Caps 
are rather
large value, which is great for 60 mA transformers, but make for a "large" 
MMC for smaller
coils.  At one time we were offering smaller caps, but it took many months 
to fill one
manufacturing run (250 caps).

Those other MMC banks were either for a larger coil or used smaller caps 
acquired through
some other means.  Before we started selling the CDE caps, Terry Fritz 
organized many
group purchases of 1600VDC .056uF Panasonic caps.  It's been a while, but I 
think he
bought close to 8000 of those from Digikey in 1000 piece lots.  :)

Good luck

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group

12/15/2002 11:00:19 AM, "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:

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 >be using. I was looking at the geek group page and it say that I will need
 >28 caps for 15kv/30ma but only 14 for 15kv/60ma. This makes me want to do
 >the 2 transformer because it will save me money since I already have both
 >transformer. WHy is it like this though? Also, most mmc banks I've seen are
 >several strings of about 7-10 caps but at the geek group chart it says 1
 >string of 28 and 14 respectively. Why is it like this again? Thanks for the
 >help. Please forgive my ignorance.