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Re: Capacitors, coils, xformers, oh my....



At 06:11 PM 03/17/2000 -0800, you wrote:

>The other thing I have is a bunch of bags of 0.22 microfarad 1250 V
>capacitors Panasonic ECQ-E series - you can make a MMC with these - I get
>$20 per hundred - the dielectric is polyester which as I understand it is
>not the best for tesla, but for a starter set they should be ok - and they
>are quite a bit cheaper than the wonderful kind - so let me know if those
>are of interest to you.  While not cheaper than beer bottles, they are
>probably a whole lot more effective.

Polyester will heat up 10 times what polypropylene will.  So you would have
to have about 10 times the number of caps that a polypropylene MMC would.
Of course, you can try for less ;-)  Polyester does take more heat,
however.  You can build a good MMC out of polyester caps but you will need
a lot more of them which normally would counter the lower cost.  However,
if you already have them...

Cheers,

	Terry


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