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Re: capacitor





The ignition coil is a bad idea for two reasons.  First, the coil will
provide up to 25 kV peaks which in a resonant circuit will damage your cap
with a 40 kV DC rating.  Second, the ignition coil does not provide anywhere
near the necessary current to rapidly recharge the cap to produce multiple
pulses in a well designed coil system.  Stick with the NST -- even at lower
voltage it will work much better due to higher current output.

Dr. Resonance


-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 3:28 PM
Subject: capacitor


>Original Poster: Thomas Gstrein <thomas.gstrein-at-stwimst.at>
>
>Hello coilers.
>I've got a 3.3nF capacitor with 40KV DC (Cera-mite). The guy who selled
>me this said, that I can use 9KV AC with this capacitor. He works very
>well with a NST. But can I use a car ignition coil with the capacitor as
>well? The arc from the coil is approximately 1.5 - 2 cm long and has an
>orange color.
>Thanks a lot
>yours Tom
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