I did see some similar GTO snubber film caps made by Vishay on ebay recently. Haven't seen any of the Eurofarad ones for quite some time now.
Thomas
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 12:23:22 PM CDT, Bert Hickman <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These are high-current (152 Amps RMS at 580 Volts RMS) self-healing
polypropylene metalized-film-foil snubber capacitors. Ideal for primary
circuits in solid state Tesla coils when stacked in series. A good
discussion about this particular cap can be found here on the 4hv list:
https://4hv.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?123061.post
Bert
Allen Bishop via Tesla wrote:
> Whatever for? Those are starting motor caps and surely would never work as a capacitor string for the primary of a Tesla coil.
> Allen BishopColorado Springs
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> Does anyone on the list have any SP2550-2 Eurofarad 3.75 uF 580V RMS caps that they are not using? If so I need about 10 of them.
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