Re: Magnifier Primary Capacitors - EQUIDRIVE vs. STANDARD

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Original poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 1/11/04 10:41:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


>Original poster: "S & J Young" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>
>
>Dan,
>
>Electrically and performance-wise, two caps in series, no matter if
>separated by the TC primary or back to back, act like a single cap with
>twice the voltage rating and half the capacitance of a single cap.  But
>esthetically, it has some appeal for those who value symmetry and scientific
>names to describe their setup.  One could argue two caps might help isolate
>the primary from the 60 Hz power source, but the equidrive setup is probably
>just as potentially lethal to the careless person who contacts a primary
>while the coil is in operation as is a single cap configuration.
>--Steve Y.


Remember to discharge your caps when using an equidrive setup.  Some of us 
are used to having the transformer secondary windings do the discharging 
for us - when using a single primary capacitor.

Ed Sonderman