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Roy L. Fuchs
 
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Default Safely testing 22 kV capacitors

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:16:04 +0000, (DoN.
Nichols) Gave us:

According to Ignoramus6399 :

Well, here's a picture of the data plate, courteously emailed to me by
the seller:

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/cap.jpg

Maxwell Labs caps are really nice quality pulse discharge
capacitors.

Do you thikn that it has PCBs?


Hmm ... It says "impregnant MIPB" which sounds like something
different from PCBs. You might check whether they are still in
business, and ask them.

And these *might* actually surivive a dead-short discharge --
but it is still kinder to them to not do that.


With those caps, it would be kinder to all elements involved,
including and perhaps even particularly the person causing the short.