Re: Capacitor Help

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Original poster: "MalcolmTesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Original poster: "Christoph Bohr" <cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello Malcom.
>
>  > only getting about 5" sparks off the toroid to the chicken wire cage
that
>  > it's in.  This is while tapping on turn 14 and a half.
> hm, with the cage so close to your toroid, you increase
> the capacitance of your toroid pretty much, thus lowering
> the Fres of the whole secondary system.
> This might bring Fres down so much, that you are no longer
> able to tune to resonance or whatever you calculated.
> If you can, remove the cage and use anything smaller as a
> ground target, maybe with a little breakout point to start with.
>
> regards
>
> Christoph Bohr

Well it worked long enough for the tree judging contest.  Everyone got a
huge kick out of it ;) so that was cool.  Tomorrow we'll replace that
cap/resister and then move it out into our warehouse and fire it up without
the cage and see how it performs.

Thanks
Malcolm