Re: [TCML] party cup capacitors

["Jonathan Peakall" <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For my money, the only DIY caps worth building are salt water caps. Lossy 
and heavy yes, but can be quite tough and cheap. All of my efforts in other 
types, rolled, plate, etc never lasted and always left a mess to clean up. 
The SW caps you can dump and recycle.

Jonathan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G Hunter" <dogbrain_39560@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] party cup capacitors


The original cup cap link on my old Tesla site is still alive and well at:

http://myweb.cableone.net/grcarhunter/cupcap.htm

BTW - I never built one either.  The rise of the MMC just sort of 
overwhelmed the competition.

Cheers,

Gregory R. Hunter
http://myweb.cableone.net/grcarhunter

--- On Tue, 11/2/10, Brandon Garretson <garretsontech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Brandon Garretson <garretsontech@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] party cup capacitors
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 7:25 AM
> 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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