RE: need some capacitor help

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Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cool!

Find a combination of caps that gives you 13300 pF (13.3nf) or 
close.  Go a little higher if needed.

0.1 inch gap spacing is a little high, but reduce the number of 
sections if it is not firing.

http://hot-streamer.com/TeslaCoils/Misc/terrygap.jpg

The larger capacitance should stop the cap arcing and then it should 
all work fine.

There are also a bunch of formulas and such at:

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/FormulasForTeslaCoils.pdf

Cheers,

        Terry


At 03:34 PM 11/13/2006, you wrote:
> thanks for the help so far
> it is a 30 ma 9000v nst. I currently have a static gap with seven 
> pieces of 3/4 copper pipe they are set about .1 inches apart. what 
> would be a good total gap length for me? i also just got in 20 20kv 
> 1000pf ceramic disc capacitors. could these be be used for my coil. 
> i am trying to use the tesla coil designer javascript program it 
> seems to be a really good tool.
> thanks again
> Russ