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Re: tuning



Tesla List wrote:
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> Subscriber: major-at-vicksburg-dot-com Thu Jan 16 22:46:31 1997
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:48:31 -0600
> From: RODERICK MAXWELL <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: tuning
> 
> Well I ran my coil again tonight and I got at least 8 inch sparks after
> tapping in at the 13th turn on the primary! Unfortunately all of the
> sparks came from the wire leading up to the discharge terminal and not
> from the terminal itself??? Tomorrow I'll try a smaller terminal and see
> what effect that has. Also I paid a vist to the local sign shop in town
> and talked the guy into letting me have some old transformers he had in
> the basement. They were four 15kv -at- 30ma neons that gone bad. I'm going
> to use the information contained in the archives to try and restore
> them. If I succeed I'll have at least 4Kw of power to play with!
> 
>                        Frankensteins helper:
>                              Max

Max,

You probably need to go to a larger discharge terminal so that it will
"shield" the wire underneath. To be effective, the output terminal needs
to be significantly larger than the coilform diameter, and a toroid
shape is more effective than a sphere. 

Safe sparkin' to you!

-- Bert --