Capacitance

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Capacitance
From: "Spud" <spud-at-wf-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:51:02 -0700
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hey again.  I have been experimenting with the capacitance on my coil
mainly because I got a new power source.  It's a 15kV/30ma neon.  They are
almost brand new so I don't want to depot them to take shunts out, but I
have several of them so is it a good idea to connect two of them and run
with 15kv/60ma?  Anyway, my capacitors were .007uf when I was using my
12/30 power source.  I went back and calculated the capacitance for a 15kv
transformer and it was .005uf.  I went back to and added more caps to make
it exactly .005uf.  However, this made the performance of the coil
considerably worse.  When I took capacitors back off, I noticed the
performance got better with each one I took off, even past .007uf.  So
what's the deal?  What kind of capacitance do I really need?  

	Thanks,
	      Ryan