Re: cap oil question

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Original poster: "Andy Cobaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kb3ewy-at-rcn-dot-com>

My mistake, I did mean parellel.

Andy, KB3EWY


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Date: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: cap oil question


>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>
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>Don't you mean in parallel?
>Mike
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>> I finished putting the capacitor together the other night.  It is only
about
>> 5nF, when it should be 10nF.  But wow did it work.  From a coil that used
to
>> give me 2" sparks now gives at least 2" streamers and 6"+ arcs.  That's
with
>> only 4 static gaps, and half the required capacitance.  I will eventually
>> build an MMC, i'm just gonna mess around with this setup for now and
think
>> about a bigger coil.  I'm gonna build another cap this weekend to put in
>> series with the other one, i've just gotten approval from my physics
teacher
>> to bring it in to school (after i work safety considerations into the
>> presentation of course)
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