Re: Capacitance

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

In a message dated 2/13/01 8:47:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< Hi Matt.  Figuring about 800 to 1000pf per bottle, and all of them
 connected in series it would seem that you would need about six bottles,
 give or take a bottle to approach your desired capacitance. There can be
 a lot of variables involved with bottle caps but they work well, and are
 fairly consistent in capacitance value when properly made.   Al.
  >>
Thats strange.I use 3 right now to get the max sparks out but with more than 
3 it seems to decrease sparks and make them crackly.

matt