Re: Maxwell 37667 pulse caps

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Original poster: otmaskin5@xxxxxxx 

For what it's worth, I was "suckered" into buying one.  I've run it 
quite a bit on a 15/60 system and it never blew up & it has kept on 
working.  The only thing that caused me a problem was an erratic 
current draw blowing a lot of fuses.  OTOH the cap is about 3X res 
which might have been the reason for pulling a lot of current - 
maybe?  Anyway, that's been my experience.  Dennis Hopkinton MA


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Sent: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: Maxwell 37667 pulse caps

Original poster: "Chip Ford" 
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So you are saying even though Maxwell rates these caps at 500 PPS (pulses
per second), They are really one pulse per second caps? Does everyone agree?
Has those that have used these caps been disappointed. Would I be better off
listing them on ebay and selling to the next sucker before I destroy them?

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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:22 PM
Subject: Maxwell 37667 pulse caps

> Original poster: "MIKE HARDY" 
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>
> Much has been descussed concerning the infamous 37667 maxwells.
> I think the general consensus is that these are 1 pulse/sec caps, and
> therefore are a bad choice for coiling. Many list members report
> blowing them up. I bought 5 of them a few years ago in preparing
> for my big coils. I ran a pair in series with an NST powered coil,
> and had no problem, most likely because I way underrated them.
> Anyway, since another 'new' coiler just purchased a couple, it might
> be a good idea for Terry, to post a warning on the list index about these
> caps, so more of us don't unknowingly buy these, only to blow
> them up. What do others think?
>
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