Re: [TCML] 1,000uF 250V pulse cap needed

[FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 8/7/08 7:05:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx writes:

>Howzabout photoflash caps?

    Well, I poked around a little in the archives, and  it seems Terry Fritz 
had looked at photoflash caps for his OLTC. He decided they  didn't/wouldn't 
work.
 
    Anyhow, here's some CDE photoflash cap specs:
 
_http://www.cde.com/catalogs/7P-PF.pdf_ 
(http://www.cde.com/catalogs/7P-PF.pdf) 
 
    They are only rated for 100,000 discharges (~15  minutes a 120 bps?), but 
they are also only rated for one discharge every 30  seconds! And these are 
supposed to be really nice photoflash caps!
   
    The suitable caps are "strobe" duty caps:
 
_http://www.cde.com/catalogs/ST.pdf_ (http://www.cde.com/catalogs/ST.pdf) 
 
    So there's normal "photoflash" caps, and special  "strobe" caps. The CDE 
"ST" strobes are rated at 10 million flashes, 1 per  second. The strobes are 
about 3 times the can volume for the same voltage and  capacitance rating of 
the plain "flash" units.
 
-Phil LaBudde

Center for the Advanced Study of Ballistic  Improbabilities



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