Re: Air Caps

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Cory,

Usually the capacitance value of air caps (few hundred pF)is too small to
be useful.  Some people put them in oil to increase the value and add
dielectric stength.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 07:57 PM 2/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Anyone here tried using air caps for their TC?  a
>pretty big one would be needed for a large tesla coil
>but hey other than that it sounds like a good
>thing........ i dunno just wondering, i saw somone's
>site who had them on theirs and was jw about their
>effectiveness....
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Cory Roussel
>
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