Re: Some wisdome needed!

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Original poster: "June Heidlebaugh" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Cody: My students and I hand wind all our coils on a wood winding frame, and
that is easy to do. the major problem is a good capacitor. The easiest is to
make a mmc with Geek group capacitors. The plans are available. My students
and I also make capacitors. The salt water capacitor in beer bottles works
good but is large in size.The wrapped polyethylene oil capacitors with
aluminum flashing plates works well , but it is hard to get good oil tight
containers for them. The cost of making a capacitor and the   Geek group is
about the same discarding the time required. The only  "cheep" capacitor is
the salt water Cap.
       Robert   H

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Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Some wisdome needed!


 > Original poster: Cody Carse <cac619-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > 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
 >
 >
 >
Cody
 >
 >