Re: Oil Caps

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

Actually they are not all that big.  I have a plate-in-oil cap with stiff
aluminum plates with about a quarter inch separation.  It is not something
terribly convenient to cart around, but it has .005uF capacitance and I can
only imagine about 25kVAC (more?) voltage rating.   I also have a second one
that has several caps within the tank and if combine in parallel, has .015uF
with, the same voltage rating.  One or both of these were used with a 22kV
transformer of about 10kVA(only guessing here - haven't attempted to determine
the actual rating. 
Mike 

>
> Hi Jeff, 
>
> If the caps is the only thing missing for running your coil try 
> salt water cap really cheap to build Geek have good plan on there 
> site. Oil cap could be interesting but you will need a gigantic 
> one not easy to build and messy. Many of us used salt water cap 
> before they are lousy but easy to build cheap and relable. See 
> this link.