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Capacitor in series or parallel?



Original poster: "Dirk Stubbs" <dirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On the primary circuit of a Tesla coil, is it better to put the capacitor in series or parallel with the primary coil. I have seen numerous Tesla coil schematics that place the cap in parallel with the primary, others the cap is in series with the primary. If the cap was in parallel with the primary coil, the spark gap was in series with the primary coil and vice versa.

I hope I have accurately described my question.


Dirk

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