I made a giant mica capacitor out of a bunch of medium sized HVish paralell mica capacitors sandwiched between two sheets of copper. Must be over 100 capacitors I found in a trash one day, 11nF each.. mostly useless
I drilled alot of holes in two copper sheets that were lined up (fairly thick, maybe 1mm) and sandwiched the capacitors between them and bend the leads and soldered them from both sides. Was meant to be a HV tank for some experiment with a induction heater or other tuned oscillator circuits hooked up to fast IGBT
If I connect the LCR meter to it, the de-5000, I get messed up readings depending on where I put the probes on the copper sheets (its like 5x3 inches or 6x3 inches). There is a effect of the sheet inductance. I was not sure why, or if my meter had low batteries, but I saw industrial literature that showed for large tanks, to make the capacitors with a specific shape of the bus bar..
http://www.celem.com/page.aspx?id=21&hmenu=37scroll down to see whats going on.
it seems that for proper performance in high current applications you need to isolate the capacitors from the coil by some value of bus bar/sheet that is bigger then the interconnect area between the capacitors to ensure sharing. I think the over all impedance is higher but you get equal sharing. It depends what your looking to do.
I set it up like diagram A in that website because I did not know any better. It needs to be like diagram B or C for current sharing. The center bus bar in diagram C is about 30% wider then the bus bars over the capacitor terminals from what I can see.