Apparently my message didn't post yesterday.
I have a spark gap which controls how much the capacitors discharge. It uses air as a resistor and is adjustable. Even at the smallest "setting" I am blowing capacitors. I actually used deepfriedneon for my initial layout of my capacitors. I...
Sadly the caps don't have any sort of power rating or current. My prognosis is that the caps are cheap. As for discharging into a small coil, I'm running a 6" coil with about 1500 turns on the secondary and 10 on the primary, it's a decently large coil. I'm not 100% sure what your saying with...
MMC capacitors exploding on my tesla coil, I need help!
Im in a tight spot. I just recently built a decent sized tesla coil. Everything works flawlessly except that my capacitors are melting. They don't fail but they emit flames or they arc, (its hard to tell). Then after inspecting the...