Re: Tube coil capacitors

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• Subject: Re: Tube coil capacitors
• From: "Phillip D. Rembold" <prembold-at-gte-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:48:32 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

 If you need a capacitor, ( for either a tube or spark gap coil ) don't
have much money to spend, and your project can accommodate the extra room,
the quickest source for high voltage capacitors is used TV's. Specifically
the CRT - a small 12" monitor has about 0.001 MFD and will hold a voltage
around 50 KV, a 24" picture tube reads 0.003 MFD - you can almost double
the capacitance by wrapping foil on the outside of any picture tube.

I've tried this on both small and medium size coils, it works great !

Phil
TCBFW


Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: Brandywine <brandywine-at-writeme-dot-com>
>
> Guys,
>    I'm in the process of building a high power tube Tesla coil. I'm
> looking for a source of capacitors, preferrably used, for this project.
> Any ideas?
> Dave Hartwick

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