Re: Tube coil capacitors

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• Subject: Re: Tube coil capacitors
• From: bob golding <yubba-at-clara-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:24:17 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 12:48 17/02/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Phillip D. Rembold" <prembold-at-gte-dot-net> 
>
> 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 !

hi phillip,

aren't there going to be copious amounts of x-rays with this set up?

bob golding

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