RE: LTR cap

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-hp-dot-com>

Very definitely!  You may wish to narrow your (presumably) static gap width
to help reduce the power draw.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

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Sent:	Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:05 PM
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Subject:	LTR cap

Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>

I recently got a new capacitor that I wanted to try with my tesla coil but I 
seem to be having some trouble. My TC is powered by a 15kV 60mA NST and 
previously my cap was .004mfd.  My new cap is a maxwell 35kV .0305mfd cap. I 
know its way larger than resonant, but when I first  used it, i was having a 
lot of success with it. Onw, however, My tesla coil trips the circuit breaker 
immediately. Any ideas why it would work at first, but not anymore? Could a 
cap that was much larger than resonant cause that NST to draw enough curren 
to trip the breaker?
                                                    Justin