RE: Some wisdome needed!

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Original poster: "Nick Miller" <nickstuffinc-at-hotmail-dot-com> 


First off you need to get wintesla
second- my first coil was a 15kv/30ma powered coil. I used a six pack of 
beer bottles as my cap. the primary was 14 turns of 1/4" copper pipe spaced 
1/2" center to center in a 30&#1771;degree inverse cone.
The secondary was 24awg wire wrapped on 4.5" X 18" remember that pvc is 
measured by inner diameter so 4" pvc is about 4.5" outer diameter. I had a 
lot of problems with the beer bottle cap so I switch to mmc. I ordered 10 
capacitors from digikey that were rated 1600volts .047uf. this ran about 
$35.00. This yeilded stronger longer sparks than the beer bottle caps. As a 
spark gap I used was two copper wires conected directly to the nst. Here 
are some pics http://www.angelfire-dot-com/ult/nickstuffinc/tc.htm hope this 
helps
    -Nick

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>Subject: Some wisdome needed!
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:04:32 -0600
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>Original poster: Cody Carse <cac619-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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>Hello my name is Cody, I am new to the tesla list. I am currently studying 
>Electronics Engineering Technology and I am wanting to make a tesla coil. 
>My buddy is giving me a NST rated at 15kV -at- 30mV. I really dont know where 
>to start. I have looked at the minikatz coil and I like the design. Where 
>would I find caps suitable for tesla work? My buddy says to make my own. I 
>would really like to find manufactured ones if it wouldnt be too much 
>money. I have about $100 to make the coil and can probably get building 
>materials like pvc and plywood for free. Also I have all the tools I need 
>to make it. I have tried looking through the archives but it is very 
>overwhelming, alot of info that I don't yet fully understand. Any 
>information will be greatly appreciated. THANKS
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>                                           Cody