Re: Electrolytic Capacitors for Tesla coil power supply ...

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Original poster: robert & june heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

  Raj : you dont have a small RF Choke between your power supply and your
spark gap/capacitor to block power arc problems.
    Robert   H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:06:03 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Electrolytic Capacitors for Tesla coil power supply ...
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:11:09 -0700
 >
 > Original poster: "Rajesh Seenivasan" <rajeshkvs-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Dear forum members,
 >
 > Power supply for my tesla coil setup would be like :
 > 230V AC rectified using bridge rectifier, followed by 4700uF electrolytic
 > capacitors connected across the rectified DC and GND.
 > I would like to know how big (KVA rating?) the capacitor should be.
 > The current drawn by the inverter+Tesla coil primary would be 15 Amps.
 > I'm planning to use the capacitor to filter the noise produced by the tesla
 > coil inverter.
 > Please help.
 >
 > Thanks and regards,
 > Raj.
 >
 >