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Re: Capacitors



Original poster: "Steve White by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <slwhite-at-zeus.ia-dot-net>

Many things for sale hang the words "tesla coil" onto them, especially on
E-Bay. Do careful investigation to avoid wasting money. I see a lot of pulse
discharge caps on E-Bay which are unsuitable for tesla coil service. A lot
of the Maxwells that I see on E-Bay are models that have a very low pulse
discharge cycle life. If the cap only has a discharge cycle life of 100,000
cycles it will only last about 500 seconds of total run time when used with
a RSG at a break rate of 240 PPS. And that is only if the cap is new. They
are almost always used with unknown service life remaining. There are some
good deals out there but you must know what you are buying.

Steve: Coiling in Iowa

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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:52 AM
Subject: Capacitors


> Original poster: "centauri by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<centauri010-at-attbi-dot-com>
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> Hey, is it possible to run a tesla coil using only one capacitor? I found
a
> 15kv 2 x .0015mf "pulse discharge" capacitor. WOuld this be suitable for
> coiling? Thanks
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