RE: MMC or Maxwell? Which is better?

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

Ed, all, IF you are talking about the CP caps, then I have one, a
.02uF-at-15KV, that has had many hours of use*. Condenser Products never
intended (designed) this series of caps for >120 PPS (static gap).
Failures were mostly on Pig coils >120PPS. Please correct me if I am
wrong. MMC's are great, but the CP caps got a bad rap in my opinion. I
talked to one of their engineers about this, and he was sure that on
NEON systems with STATIC gaps the caps should do very well...
Unfortunately they only mentioned the 120PPS thing that was not
followed...

David Trimmell

*On a 15KV 120mA Neon that eventually died due to over voltage.


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

Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

"Of course, a commercial cap that is run on a Tesla coil within it's
voltage, current, etc. ratings will be fine aside from that defective
cap
thing years ago...  "

	I sbought a couple of those which I've never really used,
although my
nephew did run for a while with a pair of 12 kV, 60 ma transformers in
parallel and no failures.  Are the things really basket cases to be
pitched?

Ed