Re: Tesla Coil Capacitors - Why build them?

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hrm.. maybe someday when I'm famous.. ;) Sounds like that
would make a good senior project.. 

Coiling In Pittsburgh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
> 
> Ben: a megawatt radar transmitter uses about the same
> current pulse as a TC
> coil, but the current of the discharge is distributed
> across the pulse
> forming network reducing the peak current of each
> capacitor in the network.
> This increases the life of the capacitors. The cost of
> the pulse forming
> network of even small pulse radar sustems is beyond the
> dreams of most TC
> coilers. BUT the use of a PFN in place af a TC capacitor
> would be a good
> experiment for some lab coiler with research $$$ to try.
> Home made PFN ???
> 75 capacitors at $2.60 x 3 banks = $585++ on the low end.
>   Robert  H
> 
> > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:25:02 -0600
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Capacitors - Why build them?
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