Re: [TCML] Tesla Coil Problem: Capacitors?

[Mddeming@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/16/08 10:18:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
huil888@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Scott  -

Are you sure that you are not confusing "series" and "parallel"  connections?

You describe your MMC tank capacitor as using .047 @1600  caps, wired "two 
strings of 12 in parallel" for a value of .0078  uF.

If you actually have them wired this way, your MMC value is .282  uF, not 
.0078 uF. Twelve .047 uF caps connected in parallel yields a value  of .564 
uF. 
Connecting two twelve-capacitor "strings" together in series  will yield 
.282 uF, much larger than what you need for  resonance.

Verify how your MMC is actually constructed. Two  series-connected strings of 
12 capacitors each in parallel, or two  paralleled strings of 12 capacitors 
each in  series?



Hi All, 
 
    I believe that the misunderstanding  here is that standard English has 
become a lost art on the Internet.   I suspect the phrase  "two strings of 12 in 
parallel" should have  read  "two strings of 12, in parallel". It's like the 
difference between  "Eats shoots and leaves" and Eats, shoots, and leaves" 
;^)) When a single  misplaced comma can result in six or seven emails, it 
validates the complaint  some of us old-timers have had for years about carelessness 
in  communication.
 
Matt D.
 



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