Re: MMC - Sufficient Capacity?

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Original poster: "Black Moon" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com> 


I hope these are non polirized caps, otherwise your screwed. Plus they have 
to be extreamly low ESR
as well as you need balanceing resistors and such.

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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>Subject: MMC - Sufficient Capacity?
>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:28:32 -0600
>
>Original poster: Koen van den Berg <cerberus_rex-at-planet.nl>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I was hoping somebody can help me out with a 'problem' I've run in to. I'm 
>in the process of making an MMC. It consists of 94 audio grade caps in 
>series, rated at 160 V by 3.3 mf. This amounts to approx. 15 kV and 35 nf. 
>Will this be adequate considering my transformer (dual parallel 10 kV 50 
>mA NST's)? I might be able to up the cap bank to 100 caps, all rated at 
>160 V, but that would mean adding 6 caps that were made by the same 
>manufacturer, but aren't rated at the same capacitance. These are 160 V 
>4.7 mf caps. Is my current MMC sufficient, should I add these extra caps 
>or do I have to take a totally different approach? Any help would be 
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Koen van den Berg
>