Re: help needed with building a mini table top tesla coil

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: mizpoon <mizpoon-at-burningart-dot-com>

 > the capacitor I think I need is about 0.00795 pFarads and is rated at
 > 10KV.
 >
 > However, when calling up a few places, this kind of capacitor is hard to
 > find... do you guys have any idea where I could find such a thing?
 >
 > everyone I talk to says that the capacitor is tiny, and that I'm trying to
 > get the wrong thing... what do you think is the problem here?

 >From the rest of the post, it's 7.95 nanofarads. Easy to make with
a series/parallel association of common capacitors (an "MMC").

A capacitance of 0.00795 pF corresponds to the free-space capacitance
of a sphere with 0.143 mm of diameter. A grain of fine sand...

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz