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Re: Cap question.
- To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
- Subject: Re: Cap question.
- From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 15:34:43 -0600
- Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme
- In-Reply-To: <20001006140100.21739.qmail-at-web1105.mail.yahoo-dot-com>
Hi Tom,
When you put the smaller caps in with these large caps, the smaller ones
will eat all the stress. The big caps will act much like a short and see
little of the voltage. Thus, they probably are not too good for the
average tesla coil :-(
Cheers,
Terry
At 07:01 AM 10/6/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I just got an offer for two 2uf 8kv caps.
>When i series them the capacitence will be way too
>high for my TC, but what i want to know is can i put a
>lower value/voltage cap, or 2 like .047uf/1.2kv in
>series to drop the total capacitence to a more useable
>level? (i need about .033uf)
>thanks
>
>--Tom
>
>PS: If anyone in the US could use two 8kv 2uf caps,
>contact me in about a week and mabey we can work
>something out.
>
>
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