Re: Commercial cap specs for tesla cap

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Commercial cap specs for tesla cap
From: "Jeffery Pederson" <kd4lyh-at-webtv-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 07:43:35 -0600
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

High Terry,
Thanks for the info regarding cap specs. Im going to use some of those
specs to fill out NWL,s cap form. As for my coil specs, I have several
in various stages of completion. The coil that I want this cap for is
approx. 11.25 inch in dia. 900 turns of # 18 , Primary: 14 turns of .375
inch dia tubing spaced .375 between turns. topload is 40by7. Ive been
experimenting with different size toploads. A 0-5000 rpm 7 inch dia.
rotory 12 spinning 2 stationary designed and built by Ed Wingate and a
series vacuum gap. I was using a .05 30kv/ac rms from Plastic Capacitors
Inc. The cap failed so I sent it back for warranty replacement. I plan
on having Plastic Capacitors build me another .05 so I have 2 of them
that I plan on using in a magnifier system. Anyways I wanted to compare
prices Between the 2 companies. The nice thing about Plastic Capacitors
is they do all that stuff for you as they offer a line of tesla caps.
About this mmc cap are these suitable for high power coils 5-10 kva as
Ive always used commercial caps. Id be willing to build this mmc if they
will work at 14.4KV/5-6KVA and I could have a .05-.06 mfd-at-30KV/ACrms or
close to it. Sorry for the long Post.
Best Regards Jeff