Re: capacitors

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Rick,
        Thankyou for the kind compliment. It is of course dated now 
since much has been learned in the interim. My original intention was 
to produce a short piece detailing a simple route to a reliable 
design for a high voltage capacitor that could be built in an hour or 
so but when they saw the TC photos, they expressed no interest in the 
capacitor asked me to do a piece on TCs instead. 5 months or so of 
intensive research followed. I did not join a list until after 
publication of the article so it pretty much reflected what I learnt 
on my own. The tuning procedures were developed independently as I 
put my nose to the grindstone. I viewed a Richard Quick video (lent 
to me by a friend) shortly before publication, hence the references 
which I could not, in all honesty, have omitted. 
      I was again asked to write a follow-up last year but having 
been on the list six years or so, felt that the up-to-date knowledge 
that is here couldn't be improved upon significantly and I just don't 
have the time to drop everything else right now. That is not to 
preclude one in the future. I do have personal ideas to advance the 
current art of design, some of which have not yet seen the light of 
day. 

Regards,
Malcolm

On 9 Oct 2001, at 8:15, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Robynsaddiction-at-aol-dot-com>
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> In a message dated 10/8/01 9:44:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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> > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/OtherPapers/MalcolmWatts/ 
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> I just wanted to complement that great article Malcolm:^) It had a nice
layout,
> and seemed very well prepared. Have you written and more recent articles? 
>                                                 Rick
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