Re: static "sucker" gap / cap stress

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

Hi Christoph,

At 07:50 PM 4/23/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Questions to be solved: Cap heating.....is it bad or not......dont want to 
>destroy it as its my only professional pulse cap.
>

Significant cap heating is always a worry.  If it is polypropylene, it will 
melt when any part of it (deep inside the winding) gets to 85 to 105C.  If 
it is paper, the losses will be high which makes it get hot fast and can 
possibly blow the oil out of it.  So let it cool between runs and watch 
that it's temperature never gets too high.

Cheers,

         Terry