Re: Tank Capacitor for LTR, SRSG

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Dan,

See the post at:

http://www.pupman-dot-com/listarchives/2000/August/msg01085.html

For sync gap LTR coils, the BPS rate is always twice the line frequency at
100 or 120 BPS.  It is critical that these BPS rates are used.

No worries about small differences in primary cap value.  +-10% is fine.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 09:40 PM 7/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>So looking at the Geek Group MMC chart, the value of my MMC for a SRSG for a
>15/60 NST should be 0.0277 uF.
>
>Does this value depend on the actual BPS of the spark gap, or is it a fixed
>value?  I know i read something on it that it is designed to a max which
>occurs at 120BPS.
>
>Also, is there any harm in using a MMC that has a value of 0.022uF as
>opposed to 0.0227uF???
>
>Thanks again
>
>Dan
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