Interesting. So I should just hook the two leads of the NSTs up to either end of the spark gap, and then the two leads of the capacitor bank to either end of the spark gap as well and see if it sparks?
I'll try that later today and let you know how it goes. I'll also upload some photos.
Hmm, I'll upload a picture of the circuit once I get back to my place.
The primary is raised such that each turn of the coil is about a half inch above the last turn.
I haven't tried hooking up just the caps to the spark gap. Should the spark gap fire if I do that?
In response to macguyver...
Hi All,
Long time reader, first time poster. I'm currently building a tesla coil. here are the details:
1.) I'm using three parallel NSTs that each output about 6500 volts at .9 amps.
2.) I'm using 4 high voltage capacitors that I built using two sheets of aluminum siding with polypropylene...
