Re: Triggered gap tip

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi J.B.,

If you used a motor "start" cap, they are not made for anything but very
short term occasional use.  They have very high loss (paper/oil) and thier
construction is based on "cheap".  Get extras :-)

A motor "run" cap is made for continuous placement across the AC line
drawing lots of current.  They will not fail (poly oil).  Although they are
very expensive, used and surplus ones go for a few dollars.  At this value
(~2uf) there are solid poly caps that would work fine too for ~$5 from like
DigiKey.

1uF	P10943-ND
2uF	P10944-ND
3uF	P10945-ND

Data sheet at:
http://www.maco.panasonic.co.jp/www-data/pdf/ABD0000/ABD0000CE35.pdf

Of course, buying them in quantites of "one" is sort of rough, so shop
around at the surplus places first...  But Digikey will FED-EX them "same
day" if you really want one bad :-)))

Cheers,

	Terry



At 09:09 PM 10/14/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Terry, Marc, & coilers,
>
>I managed to blow the motor start cap I'd been using in conjunction
>with the GM HEIC on my triggered gap.  These caps are built to fail
>open circuit, which it did.  As a preventative measure, I put a MOV
>across the replacement cap terminals and so far, so good.  Others
>running the STSG setup might want to consider doing likewise and
>save themselves a blown cap.
>
>
>73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
>
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