Re: Gen 4 Larger coil <assistance please>

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>

well, by the sound of it your numbers are wrong, you can allways easly 
build your own caps, and you can allways change the topload and primary to 
change the required primary tank cap size

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Gen 4  Larger coil <assistance please>
>Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:22:58 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Glenn by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><gcerny-at-comcast-dot-net>
>
>Hello all,
>I wound a 15.5 dia piece of C-900 with Formvar 16 AWG
>to a length of 61 inches a while back.  Now it seems that
>may be too long of a wind.  The number I crunch say about
>50kc resonance and that computed to an un-affordable
>MMC (400+ caps).
>Would someone be kind enough to check my math before
>I strip 15-20 inches of this epoxy coated coil wire off to get
>the resonance up to a reasonable number?  Thanks.
>Other particulars are Pole Power 14400-at-1A.  ASRG with 12
>points variable speed to 5,000 rpm.  Vaccuum static gap.
>Primary flat spiral copper tube.
>This project has been "on the shelf" while I built another house
>and now I'm back and ready to finish it.  Some photos will be
>posted on my url soon  Nothin' fancy.  html ain't my bag  :-)
>Sure appreciate it.
>Glenn