Almost done

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Original poster: "Tim Huneke by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ibatou2-at-yahoo-dot-com>


  My class finished our coil with everyones help. Our only problem is we 
get corona from the top of the secondary, but no matter what topload we try 
we just can't get streamers. we have a 12kv nst, "six-pack beer bottle" 
caps, a flexible spark gap built out of 1/4" tubing, which all feeds a 
primary of 14 turns of 1/4" copper tubing (flat).  Our secondary is 4" PVC 
wrapped with 1000 turns of 22 ga magnet wire. We have tried the gazing ball 
route (yes I made sure it was glass) and we also tried 3" flex duct. We got 
some neat arcs to the top load and tried adjusting the distance from the 
secondary to the top load, but we never could get any streamers or corona 
from the top load. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks