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RE: FIRST LIGHT FINALLY!


I have to agree here Fucian.  I just used Terry's MMC calculator
and I got a very safe setup for 9kv@30ma at 2 strings of 14 to give
you .008uf which is a match for your 9kv@30ma.  If Terry still has
caps from his last bulk buy that will cost you $40.60.

It also churned out a safe setup which will get warmer and
only costs $10.15.  That one is 1 string of 7 caps.  The individual
caps were Panasonic 0.056uf.

I went with the first setup since I plan on moving up to 15kv@60ma.

Cheers,
Bill Parn

PS: I found the MMCs very easy to build, and rewarding.  It allowed
me to match my transformer, which made the difference from 6-8"
streamers to the 14" streamers I started getting after switching
over.  :-)

<<<<I still have plenty of caps. - Terry>>>>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla List [mailto:tesla@pupman.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 2:02 PM
> To: tesla@pupman.com
> Subject: Re: FIRST LIGHT FINALLY!
>
>
> Original Poster: Hollmike@aol.com
>
> Fucian,
>    Congratulations on the first light.  6 inch sparks are not bad
> for your
> first coil.  You asked for advice to improve the output, but you know the
> answer probably already.  First you need to make a better gap, as
> you said.
> You could make the Richard Quick style gap.  Also, you need to
> get a better
> primary cap.  Salt water caps work, but rob some of the energy from your
> system and at 270VA, you can't afford many losses like that.  Why
> not make
> the infamous MMC type cap.  They are reasonably affordable.
> Mike
>
>