Hi Adam, Yea, I don't blame you for not wanting to risk your Plastic Cap. I think the two that you and I have are the only ones left from that run. Any more would have to be custom made by Plastic Capacitors (just like these were originally). I have 4 of these .44 uFd, 100 kV Maxwell units that I bought from an eBay seller last summer. These things weigh 33 lbs. each and are brute beasts! My pig just happens to be an "extra" that I am not currently using for anything else. Now I can't imagine a coiler having an extra pole pig lying around, can you? ;^))) David Rieben----- Original Message ----- From: "Yurtle Turtle" <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
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Any idea what's going on? Is this a resonance thing? I've heard of caps on JL's, but have never played with them.I have ten 35 kV 30 nF caps, so I can get as high as 35 kV 300 nF, but is 35 kV enough? If it ain't, I'm stuck at 75 nF at 70 kV. I ain't gonna risk my Plastic 100 nF cap.My pig - like yours - probably has quite a bit of BIL that you may be eating into.Adam --- On Thu, 12/18/08, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [TCML] New Geen Monster picks on Flickr To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 3:27 PM Hi David, My panel ammeter shows 60 to 100 amps at about 280 volts input, so probably averaging near 20 kVA, depending on the strecth of the arc. Strangely enough, when ran through that capacitor, the arc seems to draw MORE current the further I stretch it out, until it finally breaks. Just shorting the ballasted pig through a wire, without the capacitor, it works the opposite - touching the leads together draws the most short cicuit current and the current begins to drop as I stretch out the arc. Con- sequently, I cannot stretch the arc but about half as far without the capacitor in place as with it, but yet it draws just as much, if not more, current per the panel ammeter. David RIeben_______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxhttp://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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