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Re: Capacitor Help

Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

At 12:27 PM 12/13/2005, you wrote:

Hey guys,

After much searching and calling around I finally got the 338-1175-nd caps
from Digi.  I got 14 so I'll have two extra incase of problems.
Cool! They should be fine. It helps some to take stress off the caps by keeping the secondary frequency low (lots of secondary turns and big top terminal), but don't worry about it much. 


Everywhere
I called only had 10 pound spools of wire and the cheapest I found was $9 a
pound for 28 AWG.  I was about to break down and pay the $90 from a local
supplier when I got back in touch with surplussales.com to see if anything
had changed since my last call to them and sure enough the guy had 1.3
pounds of 27 AWG for $13.  Woo Hoo!  He's shipping that out to me right
away.


Cool!!



Thanks guys.

Oh and I have another quick question :) on the high voltage side I see some
people wire the capacitor in series with the primary and others put the
spark gap in series and the capacitor in parrallel with the NST.  Which way
is correct? or does it even matter?  I was going to put the capacitor in
series with the primary.
The spark gap should be across the NST parallel with the NST. When the gap fires, it tends to put a short across the NST which helps to protect it greatly. 

Cheers,

        Terry




Thanks
Malcolm