Re: [TCML] looking for a nice tank capacitor...problems...

["Quarkster" <quarkster@xxxxxxx>]

Bill -

Your mica capacitor is only rated at .001uF ........ unfortunately, not very 
useful for small NST-powered spark-gap Tesla coil.

I think what Mike needs to do first is to determine why the capacitors in 
his MMC are failing.

Regards,
Herr Zapp


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Noble" <william_b_noble@xxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] looking for a nice tank capacitor...problems...


> mike - there is a nice HV capacitor for sale on my web page, 
> www.wbnoble.com - it's mica, should do what you want, but I don't remember 
> the value - it's certainly much larger than the little things we mostly 
> use - large aluminum case, big ceramic insulator, etc - wander around 
> under "stuff for sale" until you find it - it's in there somewhere - as I 
> recall it has a current rating on it that is several amps
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mike osipowicz" <yosip1115@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "tesla request pupman" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:46 PM
> Subject: [TCML] looking for a nice tank capacitor...problems...
>
>
>
> hello everybody, sorry for the bad punctuation, I am in a hurry... I 
> received some nice 15kv, 20 nf capacitors from china, only to have one of 
> them blow up... they are rated for tesla coil duty by the way... I need 
> one tank capacitor, around 30kv, or more, with either 10 nf, or 20, if it 
> has 10, I will add it to my mmc, if it has 20, then bye bye mmc... thanks 
> guys, Mike O.
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