RE: Plastic capacitors for TC tank

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau-at-hp-dot-com> 

If they're glass cased and oil filled, it sounds like they are glass-mike 
(sp?) caps, which are Mylar, not polypropylene, and not suitable.  Are you 
certain they are polypropylene?

Gary Lau
MA, USA

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Subject: Plastic capacitors for TC tank


Original poster: brent meyer <res095fx-at-verizon-dot-net>

I'm sure someone has probably gone over this in the past, but I was
wondering about the effectiveness of some new caps I just picked up.  I have
about 20 of these .25uF -at- 3KV oil filled polypropylene caps, manufactured by
Plastic Capacitors Inc; and was thinking of using them in a MMC
configuration for my Magnifier.  Very nice glass cased caps, quite expensive
purchased new as I recall.

I can't see any reason why not, though I thought the same of the DC doorknob
capsS