Series capacitance and how it affects a tank capacitor.

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Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com> 

I've been doing alot of research on the capacitors used in a primary tesla 
circuit, and even built a  rolled capacitor and a saltwater bottle 
capacitor. Although I cant see myself dishing out big bucks for an MMC for 
my first tesla coil, I was doing some reading about homemade capacitors and 
corona. It never occured to me but when placed in series each capacitor 
sees a reduced voltage across its dielectric. If I took 4 capacitors and 
placed them in series with a 10 kilavolt 60 hz AC charging current would 
each one only see 2.5 kilavolts, thus eliminating corona almost altogether. 
The only problem I can see with this is the series resistance of 
capacitors. How does this affect MMCs, and how would it affect several 
homemade capacitors in series?