Re: Effects of cap size on a SRSG NST system

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

Hi Mark,

	As long as you have a good safety gap, there is no danger.  You may not be
able to turn the variac up full and there may be a few minor tweaks needed,
but your coil will still work fairly good.  MMCs do not overvolt easily at
all, but you don't want to blow an NST.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 11:53 PM 8/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Wow, what a descriptive subject line ;-)
>
>I am currently running a 15/90 NST driven coil with an 42nF MMC and a 120BPS 
>SRSG.
>I brought it home from it's spot in the physics shop at school so that I can 
>demo it
>next week for some friends.  Of course I left the 4th MMC board for the
4th NST
>(that I burned out before I even had the whole TC assembled.....) at school.
>
>I can get my hands on another 15/30 without too many problems (one of my 
>friends may
>have one at the very least), but it's a bit of a chore to hook it up 
>properly and
>re-adjust the SRSG (maybe I'm just lazy).   But, I was wondering if merely 
>adding
>the NST would have any effect on output (assuming in tune, and gap adjusted 
>to fire
>properly).  Will I run into any problems with over-volting the caps due to the
>resonant rise phenomena despite my decent safety gap?  (or is 42nF too far 
>above
>that range?)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Mark
>
>