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Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions
Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
How many MMC caps do you need?
I have approx 600 pcs in stock, 0.15 uF, 2 kV DC
If the Geeks are on vacation I could have some shipped to you.
Dr. Resonance
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> Great Luke. I went to that site and they had some of the best prices and
> since YOU said they were good, 8-), I ordered a 2000' spool of #28 wire.
> Ships tomorrow I hope.
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> Last problem I have is finding some caps. Geek is out until next month and
> there is nothing on Ebay. I need to find another place to get some
> polyester caps. Sounds like pants, uh? 8-)
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> JC
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> "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> 02/17/2004 07:04 PM
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> Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net>
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> JC:
> I looked around and found nothing in the way of wire locally as well.
> Unless I ordered through JCH wire and cable (local place here) they
> wanted a tone of cash for it.
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> But I found the wire is pretty cheap at McMaster Carr (McMaster-dot-com).
> Go to their web site and in the search window type in "magnet wire"
> then on the right side frame scroll to the bottom.
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> I paid $16.36 for my 3000' spool of #26 wire. Their online catalog
> rocks!! IMO.
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> Oh yeah I called before I ordered it thinking the shipping would be
> high. Turns out it would be about 5 bucks. And I ordered other stuff
> with it.
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> Hope that helps
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> Luke Galyan
> Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:11 AM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions
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> Original poster: JOSEPH CACCIATORE <jocatch-at-us.ibm-dot-com>
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> John, checked out your design. Looks really good and easy to build. I
> have
> one question, however. And it is a generic question too. For a 12kv, 30
> ma,
> 60 hz NST, the capacitor works out to be .0066uf. Yet you and alot of
> other
> designs use much bigger caps. How can you still tune? With the program I
> am
> using for design, changing the cap from .006 to something larger meshes
> up
> all the parameters making it impossible for me to still use a 4"
> diameter
> secondary with a 5:1 aspect and still tune it. Maybe I need to play with
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> the numbers some more...
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> I did go to Home Depot and Lowes and I must say I am very disappointed
> with
> their wire selection. I wanted to get some 10 gauge solid wire to
> emulate
> what you did and they had none. All I was able to get was 8 gauge bare,
> solid wire. Not a problem really. But no one had any wire smaller than
> 18
> gauge, no 22, 24, 26, 28, no nothing. So I need to look around the area
> some more. I did pick up a long 12' PVC drainage pipe for about $5. That
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> wasn't bad. I also picked up 2 end caps for 94 cents for the pvc so I
> can
> make a rig to spill it when I do wind the wire on it.
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> JC
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> 02/16/2004 01:54 PM
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> Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
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> In a message dated 2/15/04 8:29:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
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> >As you may have gathered from my other post I plan to start from
> scratch
> >and build a 4 or 4.25" secondary coil using my 12kv NST. Looks like I
> will
> >buy some MMC caps on ebay if I can find them or from the Geek site.
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> JC,
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> You may want to check out my TT-42 type coil at my website
> which uses a 12/30 NST and a 4.25" dia secondary and gives
> 42" sparks. There's a link there to John Morawa's TC which is
> prettier than mine I must say, and it uses 1/4" tubing on the primary.
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> <http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html>http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futu
> ret/page3.html
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> John
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