RE: Homemade cap..........try this

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Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Yes, good idea. I still havnt decided to build them for sure, ..I still am 
using my Ol' T.C.B.O.R. caps (3)I made back in the early '90's ,.... there 
still workin' ,,about .02mfd each I think.I saw this poly material and 
thought many thin dielectric caps may perform better than the 60mil rolls, 
............?

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: Homemade cap..........try this
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:34:59 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Gary Weaver" <gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>I suggest building, three .01uf caps, one .005 uf cap, two .002 uf
>caps and
>one .001uf cap.  all rated 40KV.  You can connect them together in
>parallel
>in any combination you need to get any uf value that you need from
>.001uf
>to .04uf.  At 40KV they will be bullet proof.  There are advantage
>to this,
>you can build a dozen different size Tesla Coils and use the
>capacitors
>that you need to run any one of the Tesla Coils that you want.  You
>