Re: Capacitor destructive testing?

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Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com> 

there not going to be in tesla coil use....

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