On 2/3/12 7:23 PM, David Rieben wrote:
Another thing to keep in mind is that the shot life is based on the rated voltage of the cap. If your system's operational voltage is significantly lower than the cap's rated voltage, the shot life of the cap will increase just about logarithmically (you can get away with running a 1 pps rated cap in your coil if you're running 15 kVAC max but your cap's working voltage rating is like> 60 kV) and it will probably last a life time for the hobby level coiler.
7.5 power actually.. A huge difference... half the voltage is 180 times the life.
_______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla