Re: [TCML] Pulse Capacitors

[DC Cox <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can probably get a good overview on Wikipedia.

In short, they rapidly store energy, then rapidly deliver it back into the
Tesla coil primary circuit when the sparkgap is switched on.

Good energy storage (pulse type) caps can do hundreds of shots per second
due to their rapid charge and discharge rates.

The transformer provides the energy, the caps store it, then discharge it
when the sparkgap is switched.  Pulse caps are a special extended foil type
cap that
accomplishes this task very rapidly.

Dr. Resonance




On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Nicholas Goble <ngoble@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone.  I've heard some talk about using pulse capacitors in a tesla
> coil and am a little confused as to how they are used, what they do, and
> how
> they do it.  Sorry if that's a little vague, but can anyone give me an
> overview of what pulse capacitors are?
>
> Nicholas Goble
>
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