Combining several caps

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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