Re: Air Caps

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Original poster: "Tom Stathes by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <newphreak_16-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hey all,

Perhaps the air cap is connected to another cap.  This
would make fine tuning the coil easier.

--Tom


  
--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Winston,
> 
> Can you check into this?  If those plates are the
> only capacitor for his
> coil, that would be very unusual!  There may be a
> hidden cap inside, with
> this air cap used for demonstrations or to show the
> theory better.  
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