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Re: Golka coil specs



Subject:  Re: Golka coil specs
  Date:   Tue, 13 May 1997 22:38:20 +0000
  From:   "Bert Pool" <bertpool-at-flash-dot-net>
    To:    Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


> Date:          Tue, 13 May 1997 01:42:19 -0500
> To:            tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject:       Re: Golka coil specs
> From:          Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

> Subject:     Re: Golka coil specs
>       Date:  Mon, 12 May 1997 20:50:42 -0800
>       From:  Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>         To:  Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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[snip]

> Thanks Malcolm -- sometimes I think that Golka was being punished
> by the Gods of Aesthetics, for his many grievous sins in that regard.
> His Wendover setup apparently used *toilets*, in order to support
> the primary winding.  I suppose that they _are_ good insulators (if
> properly cleaned) and they _can_ hold up several hundred pounds,
> but, but,...
> 
> I hope to learn from the mistakes made on my present coil (whose name 
> is the 120L50K), if and when I build the next one (whose name will be 
> the 180L120K.)  Amongst the improvements will be a higher surge
> impedance for the primary ckt (~16 ohms), a larger top electrode
> capacitance (~330 pF), and a faster gap rate (400 PPS).
> 
> -GL
> 

Greg, thanks for the tip!  Toilets huh?  I love it, I really do.

 
Bert Pool
bertpool-at-flash-dot-net