RE: Cap size for arsg?

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Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Wow. Good assumptions. =D Anyways, with having such a small tank 
capacitance, and your secondary coil being as big as it is, you must have a 
huge number of primary turns for it to be in tune, right? Is the reason you 
want the capacitance to be smaller the fact that the arsg has a higher bps?

Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz "


When you say PT, I assume you mean potential transformer. And when you say
potential transformer, I assume you are speaking of the standard 14.4kV,
1.5kVA GE PTs most of us have been using. Anyways, if you are using a ARSG
and running at about 3kW (short durations), i found a 0.01uF to 0.027uF
capacitor to work extremely well. Terry Blake used a 0.01uF i believe with
his PT at the same power levels.

Typically with ARSG, you want a capacitor which is smaller than resonant
size.

Here is my website with my PT coil.

http://www.spacecatlighting-dot-com/teslacoil7.htm

The Captain



 > > Hi everybody,
 > > I am currently in the design phase for a PT powered coil.
 > It will probably
 > > be a whi! le before I can actually build the thing (money among other
 > things)
 > > but it can't hurt to dream right? =D I was just wondering
 > whether or not
 > > the primary cap value stays the same for an arsg. Could I
 > simply use an
 > LTR
 > > cap using the same (resonance * 1.5) equation using the wintesla
 > > reccomended value for a static gap? Or is it something
 > else? Thanks again!
 > >
 > >
 > > -Chris
 > >

-Chris