Re: Tesla Coil Capacitors - Why build them?

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Dan,

High Energy who? Got a web site, mailing address, 800
number, or other contact info?

Regards,

Greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Daniel McCauley by way of Terry
> Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
> 
> I see a lot of people asking a lot of questions on
> how to build their own tesla
> coil capacitors and using large arrays of polyprop
> caps to build
> MMCs (which i think can cost lots of money itself.)
>  
> I realize that half the fun is building your own . .
> . 
>  
> but, why not just buy new ones . . . its not very
> expensive.
>  
> I've purchased 30kv and 45kv (0.01uF through 0.05uF)
> capacitors from High
> Energy for under $100.00 apiece - probably much
> cheaper than
> building a large array MMC.
>  
> Dan
>  
> 
>