RE: MMC wiring

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Chris,

I see lots of people using some VERY serious bus-bar type connections at the
ends of their MMCs and a lot of people
will swear by this.  And it does  look very nice and professional, however
if you look at your MMC, any single series
connection between the capacitors is only by the capacitor lead itself which
is such a small conductor in comparison.
Its kind of like having an onramp to a major highway with 50 lanes and then
the highway itself is only 2 lanes.


The Captain



 >Ok, I want to make sure I'll do this right the next time so I won't repeat
 >the same mistake over, and over etc. What is the best way to wire two
 >strings of MMCs together? I'm thinking the simplest way would be to solder
 >a wire across the end leads, then solder the wires that go to the primary
 >and spark gap onto those new connections. Would this work? Is there a
 >better (not overly expensive) way?
 >
 >-Chris

I use brass straps as shown at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyCoils/BigCoil/big-MMC.jpg

A hobby shop item.

Cheers,

          Terry