Re: Toroid Height

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Original poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 9/26/03 10:22:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


> >Hi Ed,
> >
> >What is the winding height and physical height above the primary of your 6
> >inch coil.  Also, how much power are you feeding it?
> >
> >Gerry R.
> >Ft Collins, CO
> >
> > > My 6" coil has two toroids.  If I run at full power with only one, I get
> > > lots of sparks going down toward the primary.  I am presently using a 30
> >to
> > > 33" toroid on top of the coil and a 40" toroid raised up above that.  The
> > > majority of the sparks leave from the upper toroid thus giving me more
> > > clearance to the primary.
> > >
> > > Ed Sonderman
>
>
>Gerry,
>
>The secondary winding length is 27.6", of #22 wire.  The bottom turn of the
>secondary is just even with the top plane of the secondary.  It runs at 5
>kva to 7 kva using a 14.4 kv 5 kva transformer.  Primary capacitance is .05
>ufd using a synchronous rotary gap.
>
>Ed Sonderman


Sorry to be wasting bandwidth here - the bottom turn of the secondary is 
just even with the top plane of the primary.

Ed Sonderman