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Re: Secondary coil arcing to itself
From: Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 1997 2:58 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Secondary coil arcing to itself
Hi Kevin,
> From: Kevin Christiansen[SMTP:kevin+-at-cs.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 1997 7:25 PM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Secondary coil arcing to itself
>
>
>
> Hello everybody!
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>
> I just put togeather a small Tesla Coil that is exibiting
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> a behavior that I have never seen before: the secondary
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> coil arcs to itself at various points along its length.
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> Basically, an arc will break out somewhere along the length
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> of the secondary, streak up (or down) the secondary for 2 to
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> 4 inches, and then re-enter the secondary. While these little
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> arcs playing all over the surface of the secondary are certainly
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> neat-looking, I am sure that they are murduring the insulation on
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> the wire and are robbing me of power. (Note that these are NOT
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> torroid-secondary, primary-secondary, etc. arcs - these arcs just
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> streak from here to there along the surface of the secondary.)
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>
> Any suggestions on how to stop them?
Loosen the coupling in small increments. You should not only stop the
racing sparks but lengthen the output discharge as well.
Malcolm