But more importantly, the RMS current rating is surely not sufficient.
There's a good reason that folks building MMC's for use with pigs use
many paralleled strings - to handle the higher current that a high BPS
pig system sees. Over-currenting a cap will kill it much faster than
over-volting. The current calculations are a good deal more complex
than the voltage calculations, and having never attempted a pig system,
I've not looked into exactly how to do that. Terry has links to the
formulas and a program that calculates such things on his MMC page -
http://www.hot-streamer.com/TeslaCoils/MMCInfo/mmcinfo.htm. Good luck!
Gary Lau
MA, USA
> Original poster: "Chip Ford" <chipford@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If I have (8) Capacitors rated at .15uf 2000volt. I connect them in
> series. Would my rating now be .019uf @ 16,000volts? If I was to go
> the route of MMC's. How much would one recommend over-rating them for
> longevity's sake. For example, my pole pig output is 14,400 volts.
> Will 16,000 be enough??? Or would one recommend plenty of
over-rating????
>