Re: [TCML] Paralleling 15/30 15/60 NSTs

[Gary Lau <glau1024@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aaaah - I admire your spirit!

As to where to stop, that's an individual philosophy.  Here's mine.

While I'm not restricted to an apartment-dweller's storage space, my house
does have it's limits.  I want to keep my car in the garage and
workshop-stuff in my basement, not turn everything into a HV junk depot.
For my coil itself, I've decreed that everything short of the controls must
fit under the primary coil, just to limit the sprawl and keep it
photogenic.  OK, maybe there's an element of Felix in me.

But beyond being tidy, putting constraints on how many transformers one
hooks up forces one to put the effort into the more academic and subtle
issues of efficiency and optimization.  Anyone can throw more NST's at a
coil and get longer sparks.  I prefer to work with a single 15/60 (and 4/20)
and see how much I can get out of just that.  That, IMHO, is the true art.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Joe Mastroianni <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Phased the 2 NSTs via the www.geekgroup.com  method.  Spliced them
> together and gave it a shot.  Only had the variac up about 1/2 way and I was
> getting pretty good sparks.  I was afraid to go further because I haven't
> yet increased the MMC.  I have all the 942 caps, just need to get behind the
> drill press and get to work this weekend.    I also have to pretty up the
> whole power supply because I just stripped various wires and tied things
> down un-workmanlike.  So no pictures until it's beautiful.
>
> But the paralleling works well even though one is a 15/30 and the other is
> a 15/60.  So now I have a 15/90.
>
> So, I'm looking for further guidance here....at some point you stop making
> it bigger, right?  Because I honestly see no end to my desire to keep
> tweaking and bringing up the power one quantum at a time, and making new
> spark gaps, and experimenting with break rates and architectures and endless
> refinements. I'm frightened by John's web site where he chronicles an angry
> neighbor attack.  I would not be as lucky.  With my hood, a neighbor would
> rush the running coil with a piece of steel conduit and get himself zapped
> before destroying my coil by collapsing into it with fibrillations.
>
> So I'm trying to figure out when is a good time to stop with the power
> boosts - but I can't see the end right now.
>
> My wife is already looking for a 12-step program for coilers and working to
> set up an intervention.
>
> ;-)
> Joe
>
> <snip>
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