Re: Capacitor help

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Original poster: "Patrick Herd" <zl2uph-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

Greetings Dan

I'm building a 6 MOT stack and have just a salt water capacitor bank, mine
is quite similar to http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg/swc.htm or
http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/projects/bucketcap/ The capacitor is currently
30nF on the 4" coil running on 3MOTs it makes 18" sparks

hope this is of some help
Pat

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Subject: Capacitor help


 > Original poster: Bob81818-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > Hi list,
 >          I was hoping I could get some advice on what kind of cap I should
 > use. I have a MOT 4 stack, and a small 3.5 inch coil (for the time being).
 > I'm shooting for about 50nf, if that sounds right. I made one bucket cap
at
 > 9nf and I thought there might be an easier way than making five more, and
i
 > dont have the money to build an MMC. The other idea that came to mind was
a
 > plate cap using paraffin wax, or something easy like that. But i just cant
 > seem to get the right numbers calculated on the program I use, and if I
do,
 > they dont look reasonable. I'm still new at this so any help would be
 > great. Thanks all.
 >         Dan E.
 >
 >
 >