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I am using 12 caps-- 6 in series x 2 in parallel to get a total rating of 15nf and 12000v, is this good for a 9000v 30mA NST? Also: I have wired the caps in a sheet of cardboard, do you think this will be good? What wire should I make the primary circuit out of-- and how many turns?
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I was told abt this site on this forum You should go through it It explains you many things abt tesla coil in very detail :)
you need the output voltage of at least 18 kV Capacitance values for the primary capacitor usually vary between 0.05 mF and 0.2 mF. The capacitor choice influences both the primary resonance frequency and the maximum available pulsed power for the Tesla Coil. My tesla coil used a rating of 0.01 mF.
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TheBoozer wrote ...
I believe mF refers to millifarad. I think you meant uF which refers to microfarad. :)
0.05mf = 50uF!!! That's one massive tank cap. :)
What does 'u' refer to? That does not mean micro. µ means micro and, therefore, µF refers to microfarad while uF means 'you eff' in 'text lingo'.
I'm sorry, but I dislike when people correct others and their correction itself is incorrect. I feel it is my duty to valiantly step in and piss people off. (Just kidding)
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Most people are too lazy to look up the lower case mu symbol so they just use 'u' instead. It's a commonly used replacement for the character. I have seen many caps that don't use mu and use 'u' instead. Also F sometimes isn't capitalized but usually people can tell what is being talked about by the context.
What sort of capacitors are they? Knowing what the dielectric material is made of could help.
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Help with coil-- MMC, primary
