Re: Magnifier Primary Capacitors - EQUIDRIVE vs. STANDARD

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


Terry has encountered this phenomonea with MMC caps which is quite unusual
because Maxwell and PCI caps both use a series of small caps connected in
series inside the box --- I know Beau Meskin, when I visited the PCI factory
in Chicago, showed me the interior of a 0.1 uF 30 kV cap and it has 22
separate small caps all series connected.  This construction would simulate
the series connected MMC technique that we are all presently using, so why
would there be any difference?  Unless, as Dave Sharpe noted, there are some
different effects going on with the equi-drive system.

I plan on calling my friends Bob Cooper and Randy Hartsock who are the
senior design engineers at Maxwell and pose this question to them.  Perhaps
we can get to the bottom of this mystery.

Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corporation
E11870 Shadylane Rd.
Baraboo   WI   53913
 >
 > I have never seen it either in 12 years.  I have used both the series and
 > parallel, and have seen no residual charge.  I can see how the equi-drive
 > could do it, as the primary side has no connection to ground or anything
 > else.  The series and parallel circuits both drain thru the xfmr to
ground.
 > (on NSTs)  The only caps I was ever worried about were the 30DKT5's in the
 > filter, and would ground out the middle plates on the stack of two.  I
have
 > read somewhere, that the isolated plates in seriesed capacitors can float
 > after a while, but have never actually seen it happen unless they were
 > purposely charged.
 >
 > David E Weiss
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > A proposed experiment for active members of this list:
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > In all the coils we have built we have never (in over 45 years) seen
any
 >  > charge remaining on a cap operating in an AC tank circuit.  I know Ed
and
 >  > others have reported that charge does remain with an equa-drive system,
 > but
 >  > with the standard classic configuration I have never seen any residual
 >  > charge whatsoever.
 >  >
 >  > We operate a coil and we are tuning it and after shutdown we adjust the
 >  > tuning tap and adjust the sparkgap usually within 60 seconds and we
have
 >  > never received an electric shock in any manner.  In theory, if you shut
 > off
 >  > the coil at the exact AC peak, you should have some charge left but we
 > have
 >  > never encountered any charge.
 >
 >
 >