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Re: 60 Hz Resonant Circuit?!?!
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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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Subject: Re: 60 Hz Resonant Circuit?!?!
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From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:35:55 -0600
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Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme
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In-Reply-To: <19990702002615.45691.qmail-at-hotmail-dot-com>
Hi Yuri,
You can go to 9nF with no problem. With a sync rotary gap, you could get
to 14nF. Always use safety gaps! By using too large of cap, the voltage
will drop but it won't hurt anything...
Cheers,
Terry
At 05:26 PM 7/1/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I need help. I am running (or rather attempting to run) a moderately-sized
>tesla coil off of a 12,000 volt, 30 milliamp current-limited neon sign
>transformer. Every design program or mathematical document I've seen has
>said that I need to match my primary capacitor to the impedence of my
>transformer (volts/current). And yet, if I use the ideal capacitor value to
>match my 60 Hz mains frequency, which is 0.0066 uF, my primary coil suddenly
>doesn't have enough turns to run the primary circut at the secondary coil's
>resonent frequency. My question is, how important is it really to have the
>right size capacitor? Is it alright to run, say, a 0.01 uF capacitor with
>this transformer? How much will this effect the coil's output? How much over
>can I go? I'd appreciate any help.
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>-Yuri Markov
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