RE: Small Pulse cap needed

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>

Bear in mind that these Matsushita caps are ceramic disk caps, and not
well-suited for pulse cap duty.  They do make good bypass caps for NST
protection networks, however.

Gary Lau
MA, USA

>Original poster: "Steve Stuart by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<sstuart-at-glasscity-dot-net>
>
>Why not use the Matsushita ECK-D4A102MDA capacitor?
>
>It's 0.001uF at 10 KV. Make two strings, each of two caps in
>series. Put the two strings in parallel and you'll have 1nF at
>20 KV. These things are only 3/4" in diameter and 1/4 inch
>thick.
>
>You can buy them from All Electronics for a buck each.
>
>http://www.allelectronics-dot-com/pdf/cap.pdf
>
>-- 
>Steve
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>w8an-at-qsl-dot-net

Tesla list wrote:
>> 
>> Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I need an 0.001uF (1nF) pulse cap to use as the primary cap in my tiny coil.
>> The coil itself is wound with 36awg, 4.2" by 0.6" on a glass test tube.
>> 
>> I cannot really use MMCs because the requrirement for a small cap would mean
>> stringing over 1000 68nF caps together :o)
>> 
>> Does anyone have a cap between 0.6 and 2nF lying around that they can sell
>> me, pop in the post, whatever? the voltage needs to be about 15KV, running
>> of a 6/25 neon.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Jason