42l's not too bad!

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Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Alright,

When this week started, i thought i was out of about 170 in caps.  Well as 
it turns out, all the caps that i had figured to be bad, actually work 
pretty darn good!  Heres what have:

1 string of 20, .15uf 1200v 42l caps.  Running on a 12/30 NST with about 24" 
streamers.  Cant tell if they get warm, too hard to sense with my hands and 
even my face.

1 string of 23, .33uf 1200v caps on a 12/60 coil.  About 3 foot arcs.  These 
were the caps that i sent to Terry about 4 days ago.  They were burning up 
at the endplates with only 20 in series.  With 23, i can run the coil 
reliably, and get some rather nice arcs.  They get a very slight warmth to 
them, doesnt feel to serious though.  Hardly noticeable, really.

1 string of 24, .68uf 1200v caps.  These are the tough ones!  Im running 
with a 15/120 PSU.  I get pretty good 5 foot arcs to the ground.  These guys 
run cool!

So, i wont reccomend the 42l's, but i have had some success now.  Like Terry 
said, they are like a fuse.  They work fine until you push the amps, then, 
poof!  I have also used .068uf 3000v caps, for about 1 year now, no 
problems, and i only use 1 string of 10 on a 15/30.

Steve Ward