Re: Tube coil capacitors

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Tube coil capacitors
From: wwl-at-netcomuk.co.uk (Mike Harrison) (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:56:25 -0700
Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:24:17 -0700, you 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
>
I doubt it - there's no electron beam source, also  the inside is at
the same potential so there's no potential difference inside the
vacuum to accelerate these non-existent electrons (better tie the pins
to the anode cap just in case, though!)