Re: Secondary and MMC Caps

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Original poster: "Centauri by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <centauri010-at-attbi-dot-com>

Hey, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately money is somewhat scarce and I 
got 11lbs of 27awg magnet wire for 20 bucks. So that's what I'll probably 
be using. I was looking at the geek group page and it say that I will need 
28 caps for 15kv/30ma but only 14 for 15kv/60ma. This makes me want to do 
the 2 transformer because it will save me money since I already have both 
transformer. WHy is it like this though? Also, most mmc banks I've seen are 
several strings of about 7-10 caps but at the geek group chart it says 1 
string of 28 and 14 respectively. Why is it like this again? Thanks for the 
help. Please forgive my ignorance.

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
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>For a 15kV 30 or 60mA power supply, you really should be winding your coil
>with larger magnet wire.  You should be using at least 24 AWG and
>prefereably 22 or 20 AWG.
>Otherwise, you'll have a lot of losses in the secondary with very fine wire.
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>Dan
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> > I'm about to start winding my secondary with 27 awg magnet wire. I was
> > wondering if you guys had any pointers as this is my first time for this.
> > Also, with either 1 or 2 15kv 30ma transformers will 6" pvc pipe with 28"
> > winding length be sufficient or is this unrelated?
> > Last, I need to buy capacitors for my cap bank but I can't find the geek
> > mmc caps at their website? Where did they go?
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> > Thanks
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