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Re: Tesla coil help

Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There are many caps listed at the web site you listed. Which ones do you have?
Paul Brodie

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Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Tesla coil help

> Original poster: "Jim Lux" <<mailto:jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > Original poster: <mailto:motosk8er2@xxxxxxx>motosk8er2@xxxxxxx
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> > Ive built many coils before. The transformer is 30ma and the capacitors
> are
> > speicial ones for tesla coil use from
> > <<http://www.amazing1.com>www.amazing1.com>http://www.amazing1.com>www.amazing1.com . Now for a pole big what do
> youe
> > mean a ballast is needed?
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> NSTs are inherently current limited (by the huge leakage inductance). Pole
> pigs are not. You need something to limit the current when running the coil
> so as to manage the power drawn. Typically you do this by putting a big
> inductance in series with the primary of the pig (i.e. the line side). A
> 500 ft spool of house wire is one strategy. Another, more adjustable, idea
> is to use an arc welder (old style, not new inverter type) which uses
> leakage inductance of the transformer to control the arc current.
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