Re: Doorknob capacitors for primary?

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Original poster: "RIAA/MPAA's Worst Nightmare" <mike.marcum-at-zoomtown-dot-com> 

The only thing I can think of is that they're ceramic and lossy and get
quite warm (or down right hot depending on power level) when used in RF.
I've never seen one explode.

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Subject: Doorknob capacitors for primary?


 > Original poster: brent meyer <res095fx-at-verizon-dot-net>
 >
 > I was wondering why I don't see many coilers using ceramic "doorknob" HV
 > caps for their tanks?  Are they more prone to failure?  I just happened
upon
 > a parcel of 18  570pF 40KV caps, and I bought the lot of them. I'll be
 > running them on a 15KV 60 NST.   I'm looking to build a bipolar coil using
a
 > nice pair of  5 1/4 by 31 inch long fiberglass coil forms I just found,
and
 > was wondering if I should have to incorporate some kind of blast shields
 > into the designS
 >
 >
 >