RE: MMC or Maxwell? Which is better?

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Original poster: "David Trimmell" <humanb-at-chaoticuniverse-dot-com> 

Terry, I think you hit it right on the nose! At first I thought the
greater ESR and L would be a bad thing, but for Tesla Coils in a MMC it
does help, doesn't it? One has to look at the design, what was it made
for? TC'ers are scroungers, meaning any high rep-rate cap should be
good, to a degree... Ahh, but TC's are not as nice as most other high
rep discharge circuits, much to dirty the water (err, oil?)with, no?

David Trimmell


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Subject: Re: MMC or Maxwell? Which is better?
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Cheers,

          Terry

*Of course, one answer may be to directly short the thing at 20kV.  But
the
inherent inductance and ESR of the MMC will serve to protect
it.  Commercial caps are good to about 5 full dead shorts...  But the
current in those shorts IS "cool"!!!  If you need those stunning
currents,
you need commercial caps...  Coilers don't...