Re: Combining several caps

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Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>

Your idea is good, but your number of caps in series is low. 8Kv x 1.414 =
11.31 Kv, or 6 capacitors in series. The capacitor must stand your peak
voltage not your 8Kv RMS voltage.
     Robert  H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:18:05 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Combining several caps
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:42:54 -0700
 >
 > Original poster: "Ramon van der Hilst by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <enqrypzion-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > Hey all,
 >
 > for a school project a friend of mine and I are trying to make our own tc.
 > We've acquired a NST (sec. : 8kV, 10mA at 220V, 50Hz) and so WinTesla
 > suggested we use a 4 nF capacitator. After searching the internet I found
 > the following site (in Dutch, yet there's nothing you won't understand ;) )
 > :
 > 
<http://www.jukebox-revival.nl/condensatoren.htm>http://www.jukebox-revival.nl
 > /condensatoren.htm
 >
 >
 > What seemed the simplest for us is using 16 (C1) 1nF 2kV caps, placed in 4
 > parallel rows of 4 caps in series. We were wondering whether this is
 > possible, because the 4 rows might discharge into eachother instead of into
 > the primary/spark gap. Can that happen, will it, and what could we do about
 > it?
 >
 > One smaller question, 6,88 euro (equals about 6 dollar 50) doesn't seem
 > expensive for a cap at all.. are we missing something? :) or might this be
 > the wrong type cap?
 >
 > thanks in advance,
 >
 > Karen & Ramon
 >
 >
 >