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Re: Beating Solved
Tesla List wrote:
>
> >From bturner-at-apc-dot-netSat Sep 7 15:17:58 1996
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 12:20:44 -0700
> From: open_minded <bturner-at-apc-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Beating Solved
>
> Tesla List wrote:
> (*snip*)
>
> Thanks Richard...meanwhile, back to the 'lab'...drawing board???
>
> I guess in defense, all I can say is that the caps worked, they were
> inexpensive, and I did get the darn thing to work pretty good. 14" from
> a 9,000 volt, 30ma neon isn't shabby. Maybe I got lucky - that
> 'synergistic' thing, you know.
>
> BTW - my large coil system runs with (3) 0.02uF, Poly pulse caps in
> parallel. (The Hipotronics Bill Wysock specials) Apparently, I have more
> tinkering yet to do - I do get blue-white arcs from it which taper into
> lavender fingers at the ends - sometimes even pale blue 'haze' if the
> color film is fast enough. Almost there - so far, I can push a 6' spark
> out of the 22" tall secondary.
That's Fantastic! Regardless of color! That's 3.7 times the output
winding length in spark. At 3 times the secondary, we consider the
amateur to be operating in a super efficient mode!! R. Hull
One interesting tidbit I did discover -
> The coil wasn't running happy, as it rasped and barked a bit until I
> added a whole lot more series inductance to the primary side - whoooey!
> I think I managed to witness firsthand your 'synergistic' description.
> By throttling back the main transformer, (higher Z reflected back to
> the primary side of the trans.) the primary tank circuit is free to
> do it's thing, and due to resonance rise, had to re-engineer the rotary
> gap a bit, as I was getting popping arcs from the rotary wheel to the
> grounded frame on the gap! The coil sure came alive too - sings like
> a banshee now!
>
> Managed to get a few lovely pic's of the 'banjo' effect too. If you
> are interested, I can compress and UU-encode 'em to you or anyone here
> who would be interested.
>
> - Brent