Original poster: "Dr. Adriano Mollica" <adriano.mollica@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Hello,
my name is Adriano, and I live in Italy. I lived also for a year of
year in Tucson, Arizona.
I just started to project my first tesla Coil, and i'm experiening
some general problems.
I started to design the device around a NST 7KV , 50mA. then using
the tesla coil design free software i calculated the capacitor
resonating valueand it come out to be 22nF. Then , someone with
more experience in tesla coil design told me that that value was not
good, so he told me to swich to 37nF. It was ok for me, but now i'm
in trouble because i can'tf ind that right caps with reasonable
price. So i decided to do them by myself, using alumium foil and
polyethylene as insulator.
My usual hardware store sold to me a 2 quare meters foil for 15$
(13.50 euros). that it is not enoght for that capacitor i need (i
calculated 1.87 m^2) but i'm going to divide that foil into 3 or 4
pieces, and buy another one or two more, in order to be able to
build 4 or more capacitos of 10 nF each.
But anyway this is not the main problem, the real one, is how to
connect efficiently the copper wires to the aluminium foil, 'cause i
suppose that the high voltage can start some sparks that will ruine
the aluminium foil and the isolant very quickly.
I red about rolled poly caps here, but no one explained very well
and delailed how to make a safe ad durable connection between the
armours and the coming out wires.
any ideas?
thank you for your patience and sorry for my grammatical errors.
Adriano