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Re: request for critique on some measurements



tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com On Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:31:02 +0700, you
wrote:


>From: SKIP GREINER <sgreiner-at-wwnet-dot-com>

>Sometime ago I built three nearly identical secondaries. All were
>about 8 inches in diameter and the windings were 36 inches long
>consisting of #16 guage machine tool wire approximately .125" in
>diameter. One was a cardboard sonotube, second was polystrene tube
>and the third was built with three plates of .25" acrylic and 12
>.5" diameter acrylic rods. This made an open frame for the wire. All 
>three tuned to about the same frequency but the acrylic unit far
>outperformed the other two units. 
[snip]
>sonotube : 14
>polystyrene: 90
>acrylic : well over 400 and probably over 1000. beyond my instrument
>          capability
>
>The difference definitely showed up in output discharges and I have
>built several more acrylic frames with excellent results. The 12" by
>36" coil driven by a single 12kv 60 ma neon gives close to 48"
>discharges point to point.
>
can you post the discharge results from the other tubes?

Skip,
	Thanks for the research.

Could you go into more detail on how you built the acrylic form?

	jim