Re: Paper/Oil Capacitors

["Edward Wingate" <ewing7-at-rochester.rr-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
>         Two years ago, 1/4 of the posts on this list delt with oil/poly
caps.  In
> only a year, MMCs have virtually obsoleted homemade oil caps (I am waiting
> for them to obsolete the commercial ones too!).
> 
>         Rather than list the problems with paper and oil caps, I'll just
say that
> MMC caps are better, cheaper, faster, more reliabile, adjustable, don't
> drift, exact value, don't leak, don't explode......  A number of people who
> were in the middle of making oil caps stopped in the middle of making them
> and went to MMCs.  They really are that much better.
> 
> http://users.better-dot-org/tfritz/site/MMCinfo/MMC.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         Terry

Hi Terry,

That's a pretty strong statement.

I think you will have a long wait for MMCs to obsolete commercial pulse
caps, or have you built quite a few small and large coils using both MMC
and commercial pulse caps? I just wondered what comparisons your
statement was based on. I don't expect to see Maxwell, PCI, CP, et all
offering MMCs any time in the near future!

Best Regards,

Ed Wingate RATCB