Hi unknown person,
If I am understanding your drawing, you have 2 strings of 9 in-series caps. When you connect one string of 9, things work. When you connect the other string of 9 also, things don't work. If my understanding is correct then it appears to me as if you are connecting another string in parallel with the first string. This will double your capacitance and your coil will have to be re-tuned in order to work.
Steve White
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Subject: [TCML] Primary cap behavior
Please pardon the crude drawing but this is the best way
terminal out 1---[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—[cap—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—| input |—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—p[cap]—[cap]—[cap]—[cap]— terminal out 2
Each string of caps can handle 19 kV
With terminal 1 tapped onto the primary coil, it works as expected.
HOWEVER when I attach terminal 2 as well then I literally get nothing
Yet when I attach terminal 2 to the primary coil it works as expected.
any ideas?
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