Re: Hosfelt caps

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

Hi Dave,

	I have a MMC program that can determine heating and such at the URL below.
 You may have to make slight changes around line 300 for your caps.  It is
just a simple BASIC program.  There are also equations and "tips" here too...

http://users.better-dot-org/tfritz/site/MMCinfo/MMC.html

Cheers,

	Terry (the Fritz one :-))

 

At 03:45 PM 8/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Wow, guess im lucky to have gotten mine too (A friend and I got 310 between
>us)?  Glad to hear from so many people they work well (even though they may
>be rejects?)  I just wanted to run by a few specs. for my planned MMC to see
>what anyone has to say about it:
>
>14 in series/string
>9 strings
>powered by (6) 15/60NSTs (360mA total - 5.4KVA)
>
>that's 3 strings for every 2 transformers- do any of these specs. seem off?
>
>thanks for your knowlege- Dave
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 1:25 AM
>Subject: RE: Hosfelt caps
>
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>> Original poster: "Oxandale, Terry" <Toxandale-at-SPP-dot-org>
>>
>> Wow, when I ordered mine two months ago they had over 3000 caps in
>> stock. To put this in perspective, it took over a year to sell their
>> first 1200 of these caps. Glad I got mine when I did. BTW, I let loose
>> on mine today. I am running 12/string (36kvdc-9kvac) and put 20kv into
>> the tank for about 10 minutes, and the caps BARELY got warmer. The spare
>> caps (will be using them for a bigger coil) accidently took several hits
>> from the coil, but still work like new. Also (hope no one flames me on
>> this) I have not used any resistors across the caps (due to the
>> construction technique of the strings), but do have one across the
>> entire string. Is this an acceptable drain or am I
>> mistaken?.......anybody?
>>
>> Terry (the Un-Terry)
>>
>> > ----------
>> > From: Tesla list[SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
>> > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 1:26 PM
>> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>> > Subject: Hosfelt caps
>> >
>> > Original poster: "David W" <Dav_W926-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> > I just thought I would tell you all that, as of last Saturday, there
>> > are still
>> > 500 of the GE 100nF caps left.  Aww, who am I kidding, I just couldn't
>> > wait to
>> > tell everyone that I finally ordered my MMC caps :^)  --  I'll be
>> > hounding the
>> > mailmen for days 'till the box comes
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
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