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HVPaul
Wed Jan 27 2010, 07:22AM
HVPaul Registered Member #2321 Joined: Fri Aug 28 2009, 05:13PM
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Would these capacitors be sufficient? They're polypropylene and not cheap WIMA FKP
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dmg
Wed Jan 27 2010, 08:26AM
dmg Registered Member #2628 Joined: Fri Jan 15 2010, 12:23AM
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HVPaul wrote ...

I measure the frequency of this CCFL power supply and it's between 32 and 38kHz which is way below what some members run their resonant SSTCs. Would ZVS generate much lesser rate?

Im not sure about the frequency of a ZVS, but you dont need to worry about resonant frequency of an SSTC, from my understanding you are building an SGTC,
as for the capacitors that you showed, I think that they might work, but the capacitors I was refering too are the ones like these:
1264580812 2628 FT83209 5761

they are commonly used in TC capacitor banks,
the BEST and unfochunatly the most expensive are the large HV pulse capacitors that are made by maxwell.
I would not buy those unless you are planning to build a high powered TC.

(try not to spend too much money on capacitors, just because they are expensive, doesn't mean they will work good and never fail).
what im trying to say, make sure that you dont get ripped off.
- by the way, you avatar is freaking me out... its staring into my soul...:-|
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brtaman
Wed Jan 27 2010, 10:03AM
brtaman Registered Member #2161 Joined: Fri Jun 05 2009, 03:36PM
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HVPaul wrote ...

Would these capacitors be sufficient? They're polypropylene and not cheap WIMA FKP



Yes, those caps will work. Personally I am a fan of the WIMA FKP1 series.

I have made a very small coil using a CCFL driver from an old scanner, worked ok, just ended up blowing the transistors modifying the circuit for more power, still have to get around to replacing them.
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