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Re: [TCML] Big Insulators
Here's the way I mounted my 10" secondary:
http://www.classictesla.com/hot-streamer/adam/bigass_coil/coil09.jpg
I raised and lowered my primary until I was happy, then replaced the 2x4s with 3" PVC.
Adam
--- On Sun, 11/22/09, Jim Mora <wavetuner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jim Mora <wavetuner@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TCML] Big Insulators
> To: "'Tesla Coil Mailing List'" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 4:18 PM
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> A hearty thanks goes out to John Forcina for providing me
> with some truly
> awesome insulators. The top cap is just shy of 4" in
> diameter so a sewer
> pipe will be cut and glued to the inside of an end cap
> which will be lag
> bolted into my round, Formica school table top. Four will
> make perfect HV
> legs by simply setting down the table top on them! -
> Pictures to follow. I
> want this 12" to be easy to set up, tear down.
>
>
>
> I haven't figured out how to mount the secondary yet; but,
> I was thinking,
> since I have extra length of the .125" wall PVC former
> (=Light + 20lbs of
> #18 magnet wire) of extending the secondary through a hole
> in the table top
> for stability and coupling adjustments. The top load should
> be light as it
> is 12" dryer duct ~ 52" round. The coil will be a 5:1 ratio
> with .375 copper
> tubing as the primary, an ASRG, and a .1uf General Atomics
> new, high rep
> rate cap.
>
>
>
> The control cabinet tames a 14400v dry transformer in a
> separate transformer
> cabinet.
>
>
>
> Any ideas on the secondary mounting would be welcome! I
> have yet to find a
> way that I like with my smaller coils without fussing
> around; and, I want to
> know what I am going to do before I cut the former.
>
>
>
> Thanks John - perfect legs!
>
> Jim Mora
>
> This hobby keeps me $ broke;-^)
>
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