Re: wima fkp1 mmc

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

HI,

Geek Group caps have about 3X the bang for the buck.  I would use them and 
not mess with the smaller and much more expensive WIMAs.

Cheers,

         Terry


At 02:33 PM 1/8/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Tesla list wrote:
> > Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz 
> <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chunkyboy86-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> > Where can I find Wima fkp1 series capacitors? Jan Wagner recommended these,
> > and from Terry's testing that I found in the archives, it looks like these
> > are able to stand the highest currents. I would go with geek group
> > capacitors but my design is especially hard on the caps, and I'm not sure
> > geek caps can take it. I checked digikey, allied, arrow, and some other
> > places, but I cant find them.
>
>To me it looks like DigiKey has these in stock, although they're
>manufactured by Panasonic not Wima.
>
>http://dkc3.digikey-dot-com/PDF/T031/0668-0670.pdf
>
>or as the metallized version, which DigiKey touts as suited for high
>current applications:
>
>http://dkc3.digikey-dot-com/PDF/T031/0670.pdf
>
>Of course, I've never ordered any of these Panasonic caps from
>DigiKey from the US (because I've all Wima here in Finland :-) so it isn't
>first-hand experience, but judging from those catalog pages these
>Panasonic caps are suited equally well like FKP1 or FKP2. Maybe someone
>else would like to comment on this...
>
>Well, it could be that Panasonic is the main polypropylene pulse capacitor
>supplier in the US, and Wima here in Europe. So you don't find FKP1 / FKP2
>types in the US. Maybe.
>
>You could of course still try Farnell or RS Components, they just _might_
>carry Wima FKP1 or FKP2.
>
>cheers,
>
>  - Jan
>
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