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Re: "Astro-Coil P1"
Tesla List wrote:
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> >From coco-at-astroman-dot-comSat Aug 17 22:34:00 1996
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 12:46:58 -0500
> From: coco-at-astroman-dot-com
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: "Astro-Coil P1"
>
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> >>
> >> I also picked up the following capacitors:
> >> 2mfd 10kv (two of these)
> >> 1.6mfd 36Kv (one of these)
> >> These appear to be from power line equipment...can they handle pulse use,
> >> as in tesla coils? and what about direct shorting (for use in various cap.
> >> discharge projects)?...
> >> #######
> >Most of these PF correction caps are either paper or paper/plastic
> >dielectric and can be used for pulse work, though not ideal for the
> >purpose. The caps you have are far too high a value for anykind of Tesla
> >work, as is. RHull
>
> Hi there..and thanks for responding to my post.
> (I am aware how little I know, so bear with me..as I am learning :) )
> With those caps. I mentioned...
> (the 2mfd. 10kv)
> you mentioned that modification would be ness. for any Tesla Coil usage.
> would this modification be more than just series-ing enough of these to get
> the value down to a reasonable level (and thus increasing the voltage
> rating), or is there design differances with these caps. that require
> modification (thus not really being worth it for that type of usage)
> (Granted..it would take quite a few of these)
>
> Robert DelBueno
You would need exactly 100 of the large 2 ufd caps in series to be of any
value in Tesla work (.02ufd is a good Tesla coil cap).
You would have to cut the case open on a number of caps and
series/parallel the individual packs to utilize a small number of caps if
you don't have 100 of these puppies.
Richard Hull, TCBOR