Re: doubler caps

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>


Steve,
The USA mfg MO caps work fine in doublers and triplers, and as you say, the
price is very good.  You might want to get a bunch of them so you can put
them in series-parallel blocks for higher voltages.  You need 4 of them for
0.8 mFd at 4600 volts.  Another nice thing about MO caps is that they are AC
rated, meaning the DC ratings are actually about 1.4 times higher.
--Steve
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:38 PM
Subject: doubler caps


 >
 > Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Hello,
 >
 > I starting my dual 304TL VTTC project, and was looking around a suitable
 > caps to double the 2400v of the MOT.  I found some motor RUN caps at USA
 > manufacturing.  They were 2300v or a little more, and around .8uf ( i can
 > remember exactly).  But they seemed to basically be MO caps,  so will they
 > work for my doubler circuit?  They are very cheap ($1 each).  That is why
 > im attracted to them, most other places want $16 for MO caps.  I cant
 > easily find ovens around here so i need to buy some caps.  So will these
 > work?  If so i may as well buy a few of them for other uses.  Please let
me
 > know what you think.  Also, will IN4007  1amp 1kv doides linked up to
about
 > 15 in series work ok for the doubling circuit?  I have these on hand and
 > dont want to buy a MO diode.  It should give me a 15kv at 1 amp diode
which
 > sounds like a beefy microwave oven doide, so will it work? Thanks.
 >
 > Steve Ward.
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