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Re: tuning
Tesla List wrote:
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> > Subject: tuning
>
> Subscriber: bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com Fri Jan 17 22:40:58 1997
> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 06:15:14 -0800
> From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: tuning
>
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > 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 --
I tried a larger sphere since I sent this message and the sparks did
decrease around the wire but there is still significant discharge from
the wire. The type of sparks have changed though, from several sparks to
maybe one or two sparks thicker at the base rotating rapidly around the
sphere. I have a toroid but it is too large for the power level that I'm
at now.
Ps. made a mistake on my previous post thats 2Kwatts oops!