Re: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY

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Subject: Re: Awesome Quarter Shrinking Capacitors on EBAY


 > Original poster: "Paul Marshall" <klugmann-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Last year I purchased (3) 25 kV 110 uF caps. Three in parallel will give
 > you 103 kJ. I think I should have some Fuses in the circuit. Do you know
 > anyone who is using fuses or where to get them ?

General Atomics and  a German company that was at the Power Electronics 2002
convention is Rosemont, IL both make HV capacitor fuses. Fuses sound a like
a good idea as one cap failing with all three connected might mean 100kJ
being dissipated in one cap if it shorts.

KEN