Re: Recommendations for Monster Coil?

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Recommendations for Monster Coil?
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:43:02 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 07:53:47 +1200
From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Recommendations for Monster Coil?

Hello Charles,

> From: "Charles S.S. Goodwin" <goodwc-at-rpi.edu>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Recommendations for Monster Coil?
> 
<SNIP>
> By the way, I originally wanted to design the system around a cap bank
> which I recently aquired.  It consists of 7 laser discharge caps.  Each is
> rated at 4 Kv (non continuous) or 2.5 Kv continuous and 375 mfd.  I figured
> that if I were to run them all in series, I would end up with a 53 mfd 17.5
> Kv cap bank.  However, this translates to something like 30 amps at 15 Kv
> (leaving 2.5 Kv of headroom so as not to overstress the caps) for a
> resonant frequency of 30 khz, if my quick calculations were correct.  ;)

Do your calculations include the primary inductance required to 
resonate that capacitance at 30kHz?

Malcolm