Large Tank Cap was Coil Form needed

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Original poster: "Mark W. Stolz" <mark_w_stolz-at-hotmail-dot-com> 




>Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com
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>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:20 am
>Subject: Coil Form needed
>
> > Original poster: "Paul Marshall" <klugmann-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> >
> > I am looking for a coil form 12" or greater diameter. The length
> > should be
> > about 4 times the diameter. Also I am planning on using a 40kV
> > .5uF
> > capacitor for the tank circuit. I have a 25kVA pig to drive it.
> > Has anyone
> > on the list ever used that much capacitance in their tank circuit ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul S. Marshall
>
>Paul,
>
>I would think that 0.5 uFD would be way too large for
>anything except maybe for an Electrum sized coil. The
>biggest cap that I've used so far is .0825 uFD, but I
>do now have (2) 0.1 uFD, 50 kV Hipotronics custom Tes-
>la caps that I got from Jeff Parrise of KVA Effects.
>I plan on using one of these for my future BIG coil
>project and driving it with a 15 kVA pig.
<snip>

>David Rieben
>
>
>

Dave,

My friends Justin and Aron, http://www.hvguy-dot-com/, regularly ran .25uF in 
the tank on their 12" coil.  The pig charged it no problem though the smoke 
coming from the arc welder ballast would often get rather intense. :-)

Mark Stolz
Pearland, TX
http://teslacoils4christ-dot-org/

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