Re: Magnifier Primary Capacitors - EQUIDRIVE vs. STANDARD

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi D.C.,

It will be interesting to here what they say!  Unlike MMCs, these caps will 
be damaged if residual or unbalanced charges happen to cause a breakdown in 
a cell.  My guess is, the oil is so very slightly conductive.

Of course, this would not be the 20th time I have been proven wrong ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry


At 02:19 PM 1/13/2004, you wrote:

>Terry has encountered this phenomonea with MMC caps which is quite unusual
>because Maxwell and PCI caps both use a series of small caps connected in
>series inside the box --- I know Beau Meskin, when I visited the PCI factory
>in Chicago, showed me the interior of a 0.1 uF 30 kV cap and it has 22
>separate small caps all series connected.  This construction would simulate
>the series connected MMC technique that we are all presently using, so why
>would there be any difference?  Unless, as Dave Sharpe noted, there are some
>different effects going on with the equi-drive system.
>
>I plan on calling my friends Bob Cooper and Randy Hartsock who are the
>senior design engineers at Maxwell and pose this question to them.  Perhaps
>we can get to the bottom of this mystery.
>
>Dr. Resonance
>
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