Re: [TCML] party cup capacitors

["David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve, Brandon,

Yeah, I remember when the late Marc Metlicka came
up with this idea back in 2000. I was a pretty new comer
to the TCML back then myself. Although I haven't person-
ally tried building and using this particular type of "homemade"
capacitor myself, I seem to recall others giving this idea some
pretty good ratings. Of course, there's no way that you are
going to be able to build a capacitor as solid and durable
in this manner as a commercial pulse capacitor, but it defi-
nitely can be made to work with reasonable success for
a small SG Telsa coil system if you are operating on a "shoe
string" budget.

David Rieben



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Garretson" <garretsontech@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] party cup capacitors


This idea has been around for a decade and this is the first Im hearing of 
it?

http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/energy21/cupcap.htm

I must have gone through about 90% of the archives on this forum over
the past two years and I have never had the urge to try to build a
homemade cap until now.

Has anyone proven that these arent worth the effort?



On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Steve Vance <steve_vance@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Has anyone here had any luck using a party cup capacitor like this on a 
> tesla coil? I made one a few years ago but I never got around to trying it 
> out. It looks like a decent idea to me but I figure since it hasn't caught 
> on I may be missing something.
>
> Steve
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