RE: pt-coil caps/too many?

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Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au> 

 > Original poster: Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > On my new coil, my secondary will be a 10" sonotube, wrapped
 > 1440 times
 > with 20 gauge wire (50 inches of turns). The spark gap is a
 > 3450 RPM. 6"
 > disc with 8 flying electrodes. MY toroid is a 9X30 spun toroid and my
 > primary will be 12" inner diameter, with 18 turns. The cap
 > bank will be 5
 > strings of 16 geek group caps, for a total of .0458UF. Is
 > this too much
 > capacitance? If not, what would be considered too much, with
 > the coil I am
 > building?
 >
 > Thanks
 > Adam
 > KD5WIT
 >

What are you planning on using for an HV supply?