RE: panasonic mmc rating?

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Original poster: "Mark W. Stolz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mark_w_stolz-at-hotmail-dot-com>

That's sure news to me.  That goes against what I've read here over the past 
couple of years.  Guess things have changed again. :-)  Yahoo, I have a 
bunch more caps to work with now!

Mark Stolz
Still learning in Houston, TX


>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