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Re: [Amps] tank coil heating

To: "Bill Turner" <dezrat@copper.net>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] tank coil heating
From: "Partain, Chuck" <Chuck_Partain@maxtor.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:06:22 -0400
List-post: <mailto:amps@contesting.com>
another box of stuff to bring back from dayton :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Turner [mailto:dezrat@copper.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 9:42 AM
To: Partain, Chuck; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] tank coil heating


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

At 04:54 PM 5/10/2006, Partain, Chuck wrote:

>are these suitable for what I am doing? hell, its 30kv! why warm?

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

Voltage rating has nothing to do with current carrying capacity, as 
you have learned. Get a capacitor rated for the expected current, or 
better yet, an air or vacuum type, both of which have essentially 
unlimited current capacity at amateur power levels.

Bill, W6WRT

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