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Roy L. Fuchs
 
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Default Safely testing 22 kV capacitors

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:55:59 -0600, "Martin H. Eastburn"
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Odds are they are just surplus.


More likely, they are change outs. Maxwell caps are only rated for
a specific number of charge/discharge cycles. After that, expensive,
tightly controlled lab environments want new caps so they know exactly
how much energy they are working with on each stroke of the bank.