Re: Capacitor life?

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

Unless you're doing something really insane, if you design and build your 
MMC system following the rules and instructions posted on our website 
(written by Terry F.), the MMC array will likely last longer than any other 
part of your coil. We have several banks that habe been in regular use here 
for several years now on everything from small NST coils (down to 6") up to 
Haruka (15" coil) and Gemini (12" bipolar coil).

We have never had a failure, ever.

In the thousands of caps we've sold, we have only seen 2 failures, and both 
of those were due to bad design (caps too close together, or to somethign 
else).

So, as fas as their life. We don't know. You put enough hours on your coil 
to kill them and let us know. Though, remember, you will have gone through 
hundreds of gaps and a dozen or so transformers first ;)

Also remember that to accumulate an hour of runtime on your coil can easily 
take months, or even years (unless you're a freak living at Geekhouse or 
something). These are things that most likely run in 5-15 second bursts.


Christopher "Duck" Boden Geek#1
President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
The Geek Group
www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!





>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Capacitor life?
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:55:08 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Philip Brinkman" <peeceebee-at-mindspring-dot-com>
>
>Has this question been answered? How long do the MMC capacitors last? Is it
>30 minutes?
>I was going to buy some from Geekgroup, but not if they only last that long!
>Thanks, Phil Brinkman
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Date: 1/13/2004 3:19:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: Capacitor life?
> >
> > Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren1-at-iinet-dot-net.au>
> >
> > Both Robin Copini and myself have used 330nF CD caps
> > http://members.iinet-dot-net.au/~pterren/tesla_coil_latest1.htm#Capacitor
> >
> > http://www.geocities-dot-com/rcopini/
> >
> > Cheers
> > Peter (Tesla Downunder)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: Capacitor life?
> >
> >
> >  > Original poster: Kreso Bukvic <kreso.bukvic-at-kc.htnet.hr>
> >  > Some guy on the list used 330 nf CD caps? Could he give me any data?
> >