Re: panasonic mmc rating?

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hi Larry,
  6500*SQRT(2) will give you peak output.. which I believe
is what you want to use for MMC calculations.. 

Coiling In Pittsburgh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Laurence Davis by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <meknar-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> I'm building an mmc using panasonic caps from the same
> group as
> the ones spec'd in the terry filter.  the digikey p/n is
> p10513-nd.
> I'm building an mmc to replace the single pulse cap that
> I killed
> in my friends tabletop coil.  its using a 6500v/20ma open
> frame nst
> and the resonant cap is about 8nf.  the rms output is
> ....  okay
> my stupid math skills are haunting me...  is the rms
> output 6500 x 1.41
> or 6500 x 2 x 1.41 ?  the cap i designed is 2 strings of
> 9 0.033uf 1600v
> caps. giving a rating of 14.4kv at 7.5nf ( i think, the
> plans are in the 
> other room. )
> 
> the question:
> to calc rms output: 6500v x 1.41 = rms output?
> I'd like to overrate the mmc so I would get 6500 x 2 for
> the target rating.
> 
> also planning on making the mmc into a cube of sorts due
> to size 
> constraints.  if cooling becomes an issue, I will place a
> small fan on one 
> end of the cube.  the mmc cube will be like this: imagine
> two strings of 
> caps folded length-wise 2 times.  2 wide by 3 high. about
> a 3" cube.
> 
> larry
> 
> 
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