Re: Tesla Coil Capacitors - Why build them?

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

In a message dated 6/22/2002 2:44:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> 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



Hi Dan,
     The reason for the mmc is that when (not if) something goes fzzzittt! it
costs $5.00, not another $100. :-)
Matt D.
G5-12 
Collector of Maxwell doorstops