Re: cap oil question

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

Don't you mean in parallel? 
Mike 


>
> I finished putting the capacitor together the other night.  It is only about 
> 5nF, when it should be 10nF.  But wow did it work.  From a coil that used to 
> give me 2" sparks now gives at least 2" streamers and 6"+ arcs.  That's with 
> only 4 static gaps, and half the required capacitance.  I will eventually 
> build an MMC, i'm just gonna mess around with this setup for now and think 
> about a bigger coil.  I'm gonna build another cap this weekend to put in 
> series with the other one, i've just gotten approval from my physics teacher 
> to bring it in to school (after i work safety considerations into the 
> presentation of course)