Re: bulk buy of super caps?

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Original poster: "Mike Harrison by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:20:37 -0600, you wrote:

>Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<presence-at-churchofinformationwarfare-dot-org>
>
>If you want a 100 watt resistor, you do not string together 400 1/4 watt
>resistors. I've examined some charts and have seen that a15kv 0.05uF MMC
>might be as few as 4 sets of parallel capacitors. That is not exacly the
>equivalent of high current construction. Also, I was not speaking on the
>"average commercial" ebay special. It seems all garbage on ebay is touted as
>"tesla coil capacitor" these days.
>
>MMCs sounds exceptional and I will probably make on myself. However I'd like
>to see what a truly high performance capacitor can do when designed ground
>up for Tesla Coil use can do. Maybe nothing at all. Have you tried it
>yourself?
Although it is 'obvious' that a cap with high current construction
will be better than one without, the real question is how much better?
I've not seen much discussion on the effect of capacitor resistance
and inductance on TC output. 
Maybe someone could do some experiments to measure the results of
adding additional series resistance in the tank circuit to quantify
the effect. My guess is that the resistance of the firing spark gap
sets a limit on the extent to which reducing resistance elsewhere will
have a noticeable effect. 
Anyone have any figures for the effective resistance of a fired gap?