Re: LTR cap

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

Justin,

Try disconnecting the outputs of the NST and try powering up alone (open
circuited). Now short circuit the secondary and power it up. If it trips
the breaker in either mode, I'd suspect that the NST has developed a
short in the primary winding...

Best regards,

-- Bert --
-- 
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
"Electromagically" Shrunken Coins!
http://www.teslamania-dot-com

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> 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