[Amps] Capacitor Recommendation Needed

[Vic Rosenthal]

George & Marijke Guerin wrote:

>   We tried
> to make an 80 meter trap using a big high voltage 150 or 200 pfd door knob
> and blew it up on the first test with power!!  Three 75 pfd door knobs in
> parallel or four 50 pfd door knobs worked OK for that trap with the
> inductance trimmed to 80 CW

Boy, I can relate to that.  I just put up a trapped inverted L for 
160/80, using two 100 pfd 5KV doorknobs in parallel.  Testing revealed 
that when the power hit 500w CW, the heating caused the value to change, 
and the SWR started sliding up, and up.  I can only imagine what would 
have happened if I had tried it at full power first.

Now I am looking for a LIGHT 200 pf capacitor that has a decent current 
rating!  I have some big micas, but they are much too big and heavy.

Vic K2VCO