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Bert Hickman
Bert,
I thought your post on the light bulb experiment was very good.
You've dared to guestimate how much current is available in the
output streamer by looking at it as an isolated capacitance. I think
you are probably right to consider it this way.
I got a chance to view your coil photos at nic.funet.fi. They look
great! Nice to put a face to the person often active on the list.
>From the pics I can tell that you are somewhat of a perfectionist who
takes pride in his work, it shows : ). You look like the kind of guy
that would not release a photo of an aluminum flex duct based toroid
on your coil, or perhaps even use it in public, if it has been dropped or
slightly dented. I am of the same breed. (Now before you others get
on my case, my coils are relatively pretty, my shop looks like a
disaster!).
I seem to decode from your pics that you have remoted your system
capacitor and break via heavy high voltage cables to the primary coil
with a third cable for strike ring and secondary ground. Do I see
this as it is? If so. WHY? You are throwing away energy. In a
tandem setup operating from a common oscillator you must do this, and
when this is done it is practice I've seen to use elevated parallel copper
water pipe as balanced RF transmission line, an attempt to reduce
unavoidable losses. In your pictures, if I am seeing this setup
correctly, your tank circuit leads are draped across the floor. If I
am in error here, please tell me to go mind my own #-at-%*% business. If I am
correct, let's chat.
Here's a good subject for another thread guys!
regards,
rwstephens