Re: Tesla Coil Capacitors - Why build them?

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

Hi Dan,

Usually commercial caps are pretty expensive.  But it sounds like yours are a
great price indeed.  Do you have any other specs on your caps?  RMS and peak
current?  Any on-line information?  You need about 20 amps RMS and about 2000
amps peak from the caps in a small system.  The high currents are usually what
drive up the price on comercial caps.  There are some inexpensive DC or filter
caps but they don't like high frequencies and high currents.

Cheers,

        Terry



At 09:04 AM 6/22/2002 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> I see a lot of people asking a lot of questions on how to build their own
> tesla coil capacitors and using large arrays of polyprop caps to build
> MMCs (which i think can cost lots of money itself.)
>  
> I realize that half the fun is building your own . . . 
>  
> but, why not just buy new ones . . . its not very expensive.
>  
> I've purchased 30kv and 45kv (0.01uF through 0.05uF) capacitors from High
> Energy for under $100.00 apiece - probably much cheaper than
> building a large array MMC.
>  
> Dan
>