RE: panasonic mmc rating?

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

Hi,

At 09:22 PM 9/25/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Please do NOT follow this advice and run with the DC rating of the caps.  
>Unless of course you have more money than you know what to do with, this is 
>a good way to burn up caps.
>
>

I think practically all MMCs are designed to DC ratings!  Tesla coils run
in a far different way than the 60Hz world the AC rating of film caps was
ment to apply too.  MMCs are typically desinged to the DC ratigns and
sometimes well beyond without problems.

Cheers,

	Terry