Re: LTR cap

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>


Try disconnecting your cap from your NST and running it on a small spark gap
or climbing arc to verify the problem isn't in your transformer or primary
circuit.

If you are running a LTR circuit I trust you are running a synchro RSG with
this setup?

Regards,

Dr. Resonance

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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: LTR cap


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>
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> I recently got a new capacitor that I wanted to try with my tesla coil but
I
> seem to be having some trouble. My TC is powered by a 15kV 60mA NST and
> previously my cap was .004mfd.  My new cap is a maxwell 35kV .0305mfd cap.
I
> know its way larger than resonant, but when I first  used it, i was having
a
> lot of success with it. Onw, however, My tesla coil trips the circuit
breaker
> immediately. Any ideas why it would work at first, but not anymore? Could
a
> cap that was much larger than resonant cause that NST to draw enough
curren
> to trip the breaker?
>                                                     Justin
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