Bottle caps

["Jeremiah" <jmeizis-at-metallicafan-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

This sounds kind of dumb, to me anyway, but are you able to use plastic
bottle caps and glass bottle caps together in series?  In my tesla coil
setup i have 3 glass bottle caps and 1 plastic bottle cap.  When i turned
the power on the plastic cap was discharging but the glass were not.  Is it
because of the plastic caps higher capacitance.  I also took the plastic
cap out of the picture but the glass caps still were not firing.  I see no
design fault.  I have a glass rootbeer bottle with a half of a aluminium
can and a 3 in. screw in the middle.  12kV-at-30mA trans.  I just don't
understand it, maybe it's something i am just overlooking.  You know the
most obvious solution is the best answer.

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