The technique of pulsed field recombination is used to recombine a free electron with carbon cation clusters, ranging from C-60(+) to C-50(+) It is shown that after recombination the electron is left in a highly excited state. The recombination method produces a Rydberg state (n similar to 180) in a large carbon cluster, such as C-60, with an electronic energy spread of similar to 1 K. We measured a recombination efficiency of similar to 6%.