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Re: Bypass caps and Neons *NEEDED!* (fwd)
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To: tesla@pupman.com
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Subject: Re: Bypass caps and Neons *NEEDED!* (fwd)
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From: Tesla List <mod1@pupman.com>
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:32:56 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:08:29 -0800
From: "Dale F. Pfaffle" <pfaffle@tele-net.net>
To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
Subject: Re: Bypass caps and Neons *NEEDED!* (fwd)
Greetings: As sort of a closure on this for me, are these cap's you are
protecting in parallel or series with the power source, or does it matter?
Thanks,
Dale in Nevada.
> Ed and Mark,
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> One of the better reasons for having a safety gap across the cap is to
> provide a path to ground at a breakdown voltage (hopefully) that's less
> than the breakdown voltage of the tank cap when you happen to get a
> streamer hit to the primary circuit...
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> -- Bert --
>