Re: [TCML] Caps

[G Hunter <dogbrain_39560@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jay,

Homemade rolled poly caps that actually work?  Cool!  Care to share your cap "recipe"?  I might not ever actually roll any, but I'd still like to see a design that worked properly and held up in TC service, just out of curiosity.

Cheers,

Greg


--- On Tue, 8/19/08, jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx <jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx <jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Caps
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 10:39 PM
> I think that every one here has a different idea of what
> type of cap is the best. 
> I personally like to roll my own.(That way when it fails I
> know that it was my own dumb fault.)  Thankfully I have
> never had one fail for any of my coils.  The other reason
> that I like to make my own caps is that I can set my
> specifications.  
> The last cap I made was designed for .0095uf and it was
> practically perfect, the coil tuned within inches of where
> java tc said it would.  score.=)
> jay howson


      
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