Re: TDK UHV caps

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

Hi Zagarus,

I have used this bank (17nF 30kV) for many years with no problem at all.  I 
am not sure if it is the "UHV" types or anything like that (I think mine 
are the "4001" series??) but it does work fine and TDK makes fine door knob 
caps.  Dan or Ken probably know much more about the "UHV" series?

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P3160008.jpg

I did have to space the end plates further apart with washers since the 
plates were arcing across the edges.

In general, there are high loss door knob caps (cheap) that are made for 
filtering basically DC.  And there are expensive ones made for transmitter 
uses.  We want the latter...

Cheers,

         Terry



At 02:06 PM 3/16/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I am building my coil and I will be using TDK UHV
>series caps, a bank of 19 2nF 40kV doorknobs. Are they
>safe to use? will they blow up? and are they going to
>be annoying?
>
>_