Re: Tesla coil help

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Wow...., I hope you didn't pay that much for those caps. I bought two 
Maxwell .03 mF 35 kV pulse discharge caps for $50 each off E-Bay. I wish I 
had been participating on this list before I went and bought them. I had 
been away from Tesla Coiling for several years and now, as I'm sure you see 
from other posts, the "best" TC caps are the MMC (multiple mini caps) that 
are made from strings of lower voltage (approximately 2000 V) caps in 
series (which lowers the overall capacitance) and then these strings wired 
in parallel in order to get the capacitance back up. A really neat feature 
of this type of capacitor construction is that you can wire the parallel 
strings so that you can add and subtract individual strings in order to 
adjust the capacitance. From what I can tell, this is a real luxury!

I am also building a Tesla coil. I hope you lots of good luck. The people 
on this sight are incredibly nice and helpful. Ask lots of questions. I'm 
sure you will ask some I haven't thought of.
Paul Brodie

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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Tesla coil help

> Original poster: <mailto:Motosk8er2@xxxxxxx>Motosk8er2@xxxxxxx
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> Paul they are these ones
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<http://www.amazing1.com/Graphics/005-10kvac.jpg>http://www.amazing1.com/Graphics/005-10kvac.jpg
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> http://www.amazing1.com/capacitors.htm
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> .005mfd at 10KVAC, 1-3/8" x 4-1/4" cylindrical
> .005/10KVAC - Tesla Coil Capacitor..............$59.95
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