Re: 42l OH NO!!

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

Seems like you're the only one having problems with this.  How many do you
have in series???  I've been running my 42L series MMCs for up to 30 minutes
at a time and the caps are just barely warm to the touch.

Dan



> Well all good things, that seem to turn around from bad things to be good
> things, must come to an end.  A few weeks ago i reported that my 1200v
.33uf
> ge caps were overheating.  But my .68uf 1200v caps still seemed to have
> hope.
>
> NOPE!!
>
> Tonight i ran my large coil again, and checked the caps.  5 are
> overheating!!!  So i really did spend $170 in bad caps!  Oh sure, they
will
> seem ok when you have enough in series, but my experience has told me that
> they will all fail at a very young age, about 15 minutes of total run time
> if that!  Might be only like 5-6 minutes.  So Terry or Scott Hanson, maybe
i
> will have some mice big caps for you to analyze if you want.  But then
> again, i have about $.02 left, so im not sure if i can afford the
shipping.
> This is really depressing....
>
> Steve Ward.
>
> PS, are the 2000v and 3000v 42ls good? maybe they are. perhaps only the
> 1200v are junk.  that seems to be my luck lately...  Teslathon was looking
> like a good time too.
>