Re: Capacitor destructive testing?

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Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

Hi Eric,

Your test to distruction only test the voltage capability of the cap.  The
real problem will occur when you subject to caps to the current flows
resulting from a bang.  I don't believe these will come close to taking the
peak and rms currents that result from sparkgap firing.  Try one string of
these 470pf caps in parallel to a good MMC and I think you will see what I
mean (protect yourself from flying debris just in case).

Gerry R

 > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
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 > whats the proper way to do this?
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 > I did some here, which provided results which seemed reasonable:
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<http://www.hydrogen18-dot-com/articles/ebay_caps1/>http://www.hydrogen18-dot-com/ar
ticles/ebay_caps1/
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 > ---Eric
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