Re: caps for mots

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

In a message dated 9/23/02 9:24:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> I am planning on running 6 mots for about 12600 v.    Do I need to also 
> multiple the voltage by sqrt(2) to work out the peak voltage that my caps 
> need to handle?  This comes to 17819 v.  Does my cap have to handle at 
> least this or just close? I will be using cornell  942 series caps.
> I had planned to use caps in series to handle 16000v until I read this.
> thanks
> Justin.
>
>



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Matt D.