Re: vttc tank cap

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: humanb-at-chaoticuniverse-dot-com 

Claude, I used a single string of the PP Panasonics,
but under CW they heat up a bit. I found that two
strings works great, with nice cold caps even under CW.

Regards,

David Trimmell

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:14:28 -0700, "Tesla list" wrote:

 >
 > Original poster: "claude masetto"
 > <claudmas-at-optusnet-dot-com.au>
 >
 > Hi, when I built my vttc I used these red doorknob
caps
 > for the tank cap
 > because they were free.
 > The vttc performs great but I know that the
capacitance
 > of these caps varies
 > greatly  with heat and voltage, so I am going to build
 > a small mmc.
 > I am going to use 9x 0.022uf polyproplene caps in
 > series for a tank cap of
 > 0.0024uf at 13500 volts which is the correct value for
 > this setup.
 > What I would like to know is one series string enough
 > to handle the tank
 > current and if not how do I calculate how many
parallel
 > strings I need.
 > Thanks
 > Claude.