Re: resonant cap with safety gaps...

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Justin,

People have run resonant size caps for decades.  I guess they have been 
blowing NSTs for decades too :o))

However, just be darn sure the safety gaps are working right and the risk 
will be "fairly low" ;-)

Cheers,

         Terry

At 10:10 AM 1/21/2003 +1030, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>If I have a safety gap properly setup with a static gap coil and
>increase the power supply current (by adding nst's) so that the tank cap
>is approaching resonant size, will I be risking anything?
>
>I have my MMC's setup so that each board is 19.4nf (17 caps of
>0.33/1600) and I plan to use 1 board initially with a 15kv/60ma.  I can
>have up to 7 boards for 135nf
>
>I also have a 90ma supply (3x30ma) which I would like to try but this
>makes the tank cap close to resonant.  Potential problem?
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>
>Justin.