Capacitor bank Definition and 19 Threads

Hello I am building a Tesla Coil. I built it well I attached an image of the circuit I used. I bought a 15,000 volt transformer rated at 30 ma. I think it is too small for my tesla coil because it keeps blowing a fuses and a red light turns on. Here are the specs. -Inductance (L): 17 uH...

Hello everyone, Recently, i have designed a capacitor bank for a company which they already have their main switch board with metering stuff. The ammeter of the main switch board has its own CTs but for the capacitor bank I need to install a CT separately. The spec of existing CTs for main...

This is my first post and am curious if anybody here has any experience or advice on how to discharge a capacitor bank with 6 1F capacitors connected in parallel. I built a electric hybrid (basically electric transmission) vehicle that uses a 31hp gas engine to power a 23kW (peak) DC generator...

We had a switch fail to close on the A phase of a floating wye connected capacitor bank. The C phase fuse was found to be bad and was replaced, however the B phase fuse then blew. The bad switch was then found and replaced. After that the system operated normally. The contractor said the...

< Mentor Note -- thread moved to HH from the technical forums, so no HH Template is shown >[/color] Hi, I have the following circuit, where V2 is found to be 0.964∠-3.3 (degrees) p.u. Then I am to find the reactive power supplied by the capacitor bank (j0.25 p.u, to the right). I got the...

I live in an rv. My power comes from solar and ocassional boost from my generator. I have 3600wh in battery power. But i know its really bad for my batteries to draw lot of power fast. So i would like to create a capacitor bank that would stay charged. Ive done some calculations but not...

im stuck on figuring out how to design a capacitor bank i have nothing to start with, its part of a project, and i want its input to be 12v (storage). im trying to google capacitor banks and trying to simulate my own using pspice but i keep getting floating nodes and missing resistors or...

So, I've been doing a lot of spot welding and research/development of this manufacturing process I came up with a while ago, both of which involve high-energy capacitor discharges, and my previous 2.3kJ capacitor bank just wasn't cutting it anymore. So, I invested in 100 "Green-Cap" 2.7v 100F...

Typically the power factor penalty that a utility charges is only for inductive lagging power factors or leading ones too? i.e. is the penalty for all PF differences from unity or only on the inductive side? e.g. Say I have a lot of motors which bring the PF down & I add a static capacitor...

I have a capacitor bank (20x 330v 180uF capacitors in parallel). But i don't have 330v DC power supply to charge the capacitors to 330 volts. I tried using a 13.7v supply from an AC adapter, but the capacitors got charged only to 13.7v. What should i do for this?Should i use another capacitor...

hi there, i want to know that how can i use a small capacitor bank which can be charged with 24 volts and gives out the same, please help. i want it to move motors for a robot like 9v to 12v each

can anyone tell me if it is possible to run a asynchronous generator from a capacitor bank and what it may entail.

I've been interested in building a capacitor bank (a very small one for a simple 9V battery) but I'm not really sure how I should go about doing this. I've researched into other ways and found this would be the most efficient. I was going to try this the bank absorb as much power as it can...

I can't understand why Induction Generator when diving stand-alone load must be provided with capacitance bank. In fact I am not sure as how induction generator works at all. Here is my attempt. When the rotor rotates, then due to residual flux initially some voltage will induce in the...

I'm thinking of building a Capacitor bank.I'm here to confirm that i just connect the capacitors in parallel with each other? Do i put the discharge terminals in parallel too, just like any other circuit? How would i go about adding a feature to discharge all capacitors simultaneously? (by...

Hello everyone, I'm no engineer, just a guy that works in the electrical industry. Today I was doing some substation switching on a 138kv shunt capacitor bank, which consists of 11 capacitors connected in parallel forming a group, then four of those groups connected in series per...

Ok so for those of you who have followed my recent threads, you will know that i am trying to find practical ways of obtaining a 16 kA DC pulse to create a magnetizing field. I have tried to locate a strong spot welder, but the DC pulse is three phase and results in a non uniform magnetic field...

I am pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics, and I am almost done with my 4th out of 5 years ar Northeastern University (go SOX!) in Boston. I have a solid grasp of most theories related to the field. However, exploiting my knowledge upon a physical device for the...

Hi, I am building a Rail Gun for a science fair, i am having trouble though. i do not know what kind of resistors i should get for charging\discharging. my capacitor bank is made up of 2000 50V 10000Pf radial type ceramic capcitors. i though all i needed was 2000 50V resistors. please reply by...