Re: Capacitor help

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: Bob81818-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > Hello, I'm part of the way done with building my first coil. I've sat here
 > in front of the computer for hours trying to make sure of all the right
 > numbers and measurements and such. I was just wondering if someone could
 > tell me if a .009uf 13,000v capacitor will be enough for a 9kV 30mA NST. Or
 > does that sound like someone who stayed up too late working on this thing?
 > Thanks everyone.
 >         Dan
 >
 > Oh and if that does sound about right, would anyone be so kind as to help
 > me out with what kinda caps I should use? I wanna be difficult and build a
 > MMC, I think they look cool and they seem more accurate. Thanks again.

	More capacitance would probably be better but I have had good results
(27" streamers) with exactly that capacitance used with a 9 kV, 60 ma
transformer.  Coil is about 3" OD x 14" long.

Ed