Re: Capacitor Size Limitation

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Original poster: davep <davep-at-quik-dot-com> 


>Yikes!  You shouldn't be using Microwave Oven capacitors for your tesla
>coil primary circuit.  Very bad!
>They are not pulse rated and will heat up and explode!!!
         ...also the voltage across a long string will

         divide in unpredictable ways.  ROUGHLY the voltage
         goes as the INVERSE of the capacitance.  It gets
         more complicated, ferinstance there is some
         tolerance on the _labelled_ capacitance value.

         There are many things which work 'briefly' which
         do not work well long term.

-- 
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         dwp

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