Re: Tesla Coil Capacitors - Why build them?

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Original poster: "Dave Larkin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <teslaman15-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>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.

Basically the reason people don't buy new pulse caps is not any of the 
rubbish about short life or unreliability that mmc lovers pedal, but the 
plain fact that they are darn expensive.

If you can get more that that price and rating (45kV, 0.05µF, under $100) 
from High Energy Corp. then I suspect you will have coilers queing around 
the block for them.  Normally a decent pulse cap at that sort of rating runs 
to upwards of $400.

-Dave-