RE: MMC wiring

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 10:57 25/02/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
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>Chris,
>
>I see lots of people using some VERY serious bus-bar type connections at the
>ends of their MMCs and a lot of people
>will swear by this.  And it does  look very nice and professional, however
>if you look at your MMC, any single series
>connection between the capacitors is only by the capacitor lead itself which
>is such a small conductor in comparison.
>Its kind of like having an onramp to a major highway with 50 lanes and then
>the highway itself is only 2 lanes.

I thought the idea was to minimize skin-effect resistance and inductance in 
the bus-bars so that current would share equally between the MMC strings. 
Otherwise the strings at the far end of the busbars (buswires whatever) 
would get less current than the ones at the near end. I used copper-clad 
PCB material for mine.

Steve C.