Hi,
I am working on a tesla coil with my friend, we started it up at school, and are trying to finish it up before summer is complete.
http://www.amsatnet.info/#coilWe finally found an NST and bought it because everyone was telling us MOTS were not going to work. We got a 60ma 15kv NON GFI.
The secondary was tested by the meter, and we measured around 88khz resonant frequency with the top load installed. We also wound 100 feet of copper tubing for the primary around it.
The bucket capacitor is having major problems though (see the picture in the site) , the beer bottles keep breaking when we try to add power, and everyone says they are really inefficient and don't work very well...
So, for the last step in our project before completion, we need some capacitors. The problem is we kinda spent a lot of our money for the coil, and are on a pretty big budget and don't want to be spending hundreds and hundreds on a capacitor bank.
Does anybody have any suggestions and links for good capacitors for my setup? I know it can be really picky when it comes to tesla coil capacitors.
PS
The primary in the pic is not the one we are using now, we realized that it had way to short of a length and too little inductance and we would need a giant cap to compensate.
We do plan on switching to 4 mots for a total of 8kv in the future, just now we are doing it with the NST for initial testing.