Re: Primary: flat or conical ?

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Primary: flat or conical ?
• From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:46:08 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

In a message dated 7/20/99 9:42:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

 -   snip   -
> 
>  Either way you choose to go, the results will be good.  One note though, if
>  you
>  make a helical primary, don't make it go more than 15% up the length of the
>  secondary, or you might experience some corona from the primary to
>  secondary.
>  
Using my original 30 degree bowl shaped primary with my 6.0" diameter 
secondary at 12kv   120 ma with all the lights out, I could see a very strong 
blue corona between the primary and secondary which looked very much like a 
blue Christmas tree.

Ed Sonderman

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