Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
No, not really. it's actually multi- layered crap. 8" long. almost 1,000'
of 36 AWG wire. It will probably never work.
It probably doesn't even have a resonant freq.
Steven Steele
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: Cap orientation
Original poster: "Gerald Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Oops, I'll reply to my own reply. My eyes must have played tricks on me
and I read the
frequency as 833 KHz. So if 833 Hz is correct, you have a mighty large
coil, yes??
Gerry R
Original poster: "Gerald Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I'm thinking that either your coil is mighty small or it doesn't have
much of a topload. Without an appropriate topload, your primary
inductance will be too small and the primary current will be too large.
Maybe some dimensions are in order.
Gerry R.
Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
My TC should resonate at about 833Hz, I know that for a fact. I'm
getting 15 15uf 2kv MMCs. I'm thinking I need my total capacitance to
equal about 9.3nf, but I'm not entirely sure. Can somebody please
validate that for me?
Also how should I arrange the caps? Right now I'm think of makinging an
adjustable rig for my caps so I can play with the capacitance while the
TC is running to tune it, but I'd rather not do that. Thanks.
Steven Steele