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Small-cap success - well kind of...



Okay, I emptied closets and scavenged PCB's from dead monitors... and
assembled
a really small capacitor. It has 10 3.3nF, 250 VAC (Y) caps, 4 2.2 nF, 4 kVDC
caps and 4 1 nF, 2 (?) kVDC caps. Total capacitance 110 pF. The good news is,
that it doesn't seem to want to blow up, in the usual spark gap / primary coil
/ NST (4 kV, 35mA) configuration. They don't even heat up. The bad news is,
that the capacitance seems to be _way_ too small to do anything useful to my
TC - no sparks, no arcs, no nothing. Well, I can light a fluorescent tube
dimly, but that could be due to the primary coil, too.

I guess I'll have to just wait for the _real_ caps to come :-)