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RE: My First Tesla Coil



Ryan,

Business cards usually run about .012" thick so you're gap should be in the
ballpark.

As far as EMMC's go I've used two strings of 10 Panasonic ECW-H16333JV's
(DigiKey P/N P10513-ND) for a total Cpri of .0066uF at 16,000vdc This has
proven to be a very robust design even surviving a couple direct strikes
during the bread-boarding stages. See
http://fp2.hughes-dot-net/brianb/newpage12.htm

Everything else looks good.

Regards,
Brian Basura


-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla List [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 8:42 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: My First Tesla Coil


Original Poster: "Spud" <spud-at-wf-dot-net> 

<snip>
Main Spark Gap:  8 Gaps (Spaced with two business cards, I don't know
exactly how thick that is. :) Also, how wide should my safety
gap be? )
     Capacitance:  MMC: 30 Caps of 600 VAC (1200 VDC) that make about .0066
mfd. (I guess I should make 3 strings of 10 caps

              		  each.)
<snip>