Tuned Tesla Coil, with PFC

An update of the coil that I'm making for VIU (Vancouver Island University). I have added 180 uf of capacitance for power factor correction.
The sphere is now much closer to the top of the windings and I have added a metal strap to connect the windings with the sphere. This does a good job of keeping the rouge breakouts from the top of the secondary to a minimum.
UPDATE: The top of the coil has been upgraded to keep corona loss at near zero. Can now be run with one breakout point.

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[Depthhider]

I can not find any PFC caps that meet my requirments of 165uf did wire yours in parrell to get your 180uf?

[HVHighjinks]

ya, I wired the caps in parallel to get the higher numbers. It's the most practical way of doing it.

[scrog77]

Great stuff..Shame about the camera shots??