It's Me Again, After a Long Recess, and I've got problems...

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Original poster: "Ryan Ries by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <spud-at-wf-dot-net>

	It's been several months since I've posted anything to the list, but I
have some pretty severe problems. 

	Today is the first day that my friend and I have started working on the
coil again in a couple months, and we have still not gotten the 10kva pole
pig to function correctly.  It only buzzed little 6 inch sparks.  The
ballasting checks, the spark is decent, the primary and secondary coils
check.  The only thing left to point at was the capacitors.  I fired up
Wintesla, and entered in my transformer.  12400v -at- 0.81a.  It calculated
the matched capacitance to be 0.173µf !  Is this correct?  We only have
0.037µf right now, and that's the highest we can get.  About a year ago,
someone on this mailing list was generous enough to sell me some MMC caps;
100 pieces for $20.  They were 0.21µf -at- 600vac.  They were the best caps we
have ever had, but they can't reach a capacitance like that.  As
high-school students, neither of us have the budget to buy a capacitor (or
that amount of MMC caps) of that magnitude.

	If anyone would be willing to offer any advice, I would be grateful.

	Thanks,
	   Ryan Ries
	   spud-at-pureinsanity-dot-net
	   http://spud.pureinsanity-dot-net