Re: Maxwell Capacitor - Air Bubble question . . .

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

At 08:42 AM 4/4/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Bunnykiller by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>
>
>Hi Capt...
>
>
>I use 4 Mawells in my coil set up and all 4 have air in the caps....   ( 
>well 2 of them had air in them when I got them the other 2 needed a refill 
>due to UPS   or is that OOOPS....  ;)   )   since these caps do get warm 
>during usage..  there will be some expansion of the oil in the case..  air 
>is a good medium for oil expansion...    just be sure to keep the air 
>pocket above the main plate assembly...   air in the plate assembly is 
>baaad...   oil is gooood ...;)    I lost a really nice 36XXX cap  due to 
>running it on its long side instead of "upwards" ... the plates on the 
>"air" side became "dry" and ooops...  there goes 80$...
>
>
>Scot D

I note that in Maxwell's Marx Bank brochure, the plastic cased capacitors 
are shown oriented long axis horizontally (these are the ones with both 
terminals at one end, separated by a wall of plastic).