Re: [TCML] Capacitor for the 10 in. coil

[jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Yes, 
BPS - Beats Per Second 
It is indeed very comparable to sounds tones on a scale as you increase the pulse rates. 

If you are only running 30 bps you probably have too large of a capacitor, decreasing your cap size will allow it to charge faster increasing your bps and probably your spark length. 






Thanks, 
John "Jay" Howson IV 


"Why thank you, I will be happy to take those electrons off your hands." 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Noggle" <cn@xxxxx> 
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 1:18:05 PM 
Subject: Re: [TCML] Capacitor for the 10 in. coil 

Hey--- 

What does the acronym BPS stand for? I assume it's not the actual pulse 
repetition frequency, since for 480 BPS that would be about B above 
middle C. My poor little coil is a relative piker, only running at 
about 30 ragged pps (blown gap). 

Thanks for clearing up the confusion--- 

Carl 




> Hi all, 
> 
> The capacitor for the big coil is a Maxwell MMC. There are 5 strings of 2 for a cap. of 76.4 nf. They are the 37767 caps at 35 kv and 30nf. They were all purchased used from e-bay. Very easy to integrate into the coil. After an 8 minute run I could barely feel any warmth coming off of the bank. The cap is connected with .125 flat ribbon copper that is 1" wide. Cap is in series with primary. 
> 
> At John IV, 
> 
> you wrote, 
> :Excuse me, 
> :That last message should be for Jason. My apologies for mis-typing your name. 
> 
> 
> 
> Thats cool. You can call me a fellow coiler. I really like the effect your sparkgap gives in those tests on youtube. How much power have you ran through that gap?? Anyway lets see if I can give some more info on my coil : It is powered by a 12470/240 sec/pri rated 10kva. I am not sure what actual current is, but will be putting amp and volt meters in the control panel. It is ballasted by two cores out of a Lincoln 250 that are rewound with a gap cut and shimmed with PC. The transformer has a tap setting on the side and it is set at 105%. The sparkgap motor is 1 1/2 hp 3600rpm. There are 8 electrodes that are .5 in. brass threaded rod. The stationary electrodes are 1/2 copper studs out of a giant starter. Ballast L is 8.89mh on the primary side of the pig. 
> 
> I have ran the coil for about 3 hours all together with runtimes of about 4-5 min average. 2 days ago I let it go for about 9 minutes as I got everything in tune. No warming of the caps this time as previous runs were at 720bps. I just finished the new sparkgap plate last wednesday to reduce heating in the caps by lowering to 480bps. They (the caps) are only rated 500 pps, so best not to overdrive them to much. 
> 
> It seems the coil is constantly changing as I make improvements (well, sometimes they are improvents, other times....). I would be glad to answer any questions from all. 
> 
> working on new topload 
> 
> Jason in S.D. 
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