Re: microwave oven capacitors

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

Once on ebay one guy was selling 10 microwave oven caps and said that he had 
used the same type for a TC cap bank. The list hasn't been able to figure out 
whether or not they use a lossy dielectric. 

Mark 

In a message dated 8/11/01 2:42:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> Just curious, would it be possible to use microwave oven capacitors MMC 
> style 
> to create a bigger capacitor for a tesla coil. My guess is no, or someone 
> would have already tried it. I was just wondering because I can get them 
> kind 
> of cheaply