For everyone to understand what is going on, I was attempting to help Brandon find some caps to use to build a tank cap as inexpensively as he can and still work with his 15kV 30mA neon sign transformer, as he is on a very tight budget. The caps we are looking at are only selling for 3 for $12. I located these caps at Fair Radio for him that are rated .01uF at 10kV. He wants to use 4 in series to get .0025 at 40kV and put together 3 strings of these to get .0075 at 40kV. I actually recommended 3 strings of 3 caps to get more capacitance, .01uF at the lesser voltage of 30kV, but he wants the extra voltage rather then the extra capacitance and says they will fit his budget. JavaTC recommends .008uF for his setup and I have always gone with a little bit more capacitance rather than less when given the choice. If he had the money, I would actually prefer he went with 4 strings of 4 caps to get .01uF at 40kV but I suppose that is immaterial.
So has anyone got any advice for us, taking into consideration that the usual Cornell Debilier caps are out of the question due to cost. If you make a recommendation, please try to keep the cost under about $50 for the caps. That has been a very stiff requirement for me to meet, so far. Thanks everyone.
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This document is a bit old, but the only one I know of. http://www.classictesla.com/hot-streamer/TeslaCoils/MMCInfo/good-bad.txt Take care, Bart Brandon Hendershot wrote:I've heard rumors of a list in the archives consisting of caps known to work well in MMC's, and caps known NOT to be used in MMC's. I was unsuccessful in finding this list. If one of you could give a link to the post if you wouldn't mind. I'm trying to check up on these; https://www.fairradio.com/catalog.php?mode=viewitem&item=5330 They're 'Dearborn 430P'. 3 for $12.00 isn't bad at all if they will work..._______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla_______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxhttp://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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