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Re: Tube coil capacitors
Bob,
That all depends on your definition of copious . . . ;-)
it's nothing that can't be shielded.
My idea does answer his original question of
< a source of capacitors, preferably used >
Sorry for not addressing the obvious, but these do make good caps.
Phil
TCBFW
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: bob golding <yubba-at-clara-dot-net>
>
> 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