RE: MMC or Maxwell? Which is better?

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

Ed, that sounds just like one of the CP caps. I bought the 15KV one
because I could only afford the $160 for it at the time. My experience
has been good. But I would be interested to know if others had failures
while running in a sensible Neon system? I would say use it! Like I
said, the Geek MMC caps are great, but no need to feel you shouldn't use
your existing Condenser Products cap that was also designed to be used
in sensible static gaps coil.

Regards,

David Trimmell

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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:26 PM
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Subject: Re: MMC or Maxwell? Which is better?

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

"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"

	I just went looking for the ones I have but there's been too
much stuff
piled into my attic since the last time I saw them.  I thought that they
were 0.025, 20 kV, but guess memory is short these days.  My only
interest was in using them with NST's (no interest in bigger and better
things) and have always used both a fixed gap and a safety gap.

	Sounds as if you feel these are OK under such circumstances?

Ed