LTR question, high voltage wire.

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Original poster: "Jim Mora by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jmora-at-jetlink-dot-net>

Hello Terry and All,

If the Cornell caps can take the voltage swing, which seems likely, this was an
obvious over sight on my part. I paid 3x for the Panasonic from Digi-Key
for equal
strings. Poof :-')

Given adding the 15 nf to the cap bank (35 nf total -at-15/120), in your
experience,
how well will this LTR work with an air blast gap vrs the standard resonant
tuning? Performance? Also, I'm still curious if I can use HV wire to connect
between the xformers and the safety gaps, all else will be flat copper. I am
assuming this is only important in the tank; but, we all know what assume
means:-)
All opinions welcome.

Thanks Much,
Jim Mora

Terry Fritz wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> The caps are 0.150uF not 1.5uF.  If you put 10 in a row you get a 20kV cap
> at 0.015uF or 15nF.  15 in a row gives 0.010uF or 10nF.  Isn't that the
> value you wanted?
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
> At 12:16 AM 10/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi Terry and fellow coilers,
> >
> >Ok, so I have found out what an LTR cap bank is ( a T. Frizt post). As I
> >understand it, the bank is set at 1.5 times the capacity of the
> >reasonate frequency of the NST resoanace cap bank, additionally
> >protecting the NST and adding more energy.
> >
> >So that leaves me with (15) 1.5uf 2k CD caps from the geek group, which
> >are not of value in my present coil configuration unless you have some
> >idaes...
> >Snip>