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Re: microwave caps

Subject: 
        Re: microwave caps
  Date: 
        Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:45:25 +0200
  From: 
        Kenneth Aaron <kennetha-at-geocities-dot-com>
    To: 
        Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
    CC: 
        tesla-at-pupman-dot-com


>Subject: 
>        Re: microwave caps
>  Date: 
>        Sat, 22 Mar 1997 23:09:23 -0500 (EST)
>  From: 
>        richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
>    To: 
>        Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
>
>At 12:00 AM 3/22/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>Subject: 
>>        Re: microwave caps
>>  Date: 
>>        Fri, 21 Mar 1997 19:55:57 -1200
>>  From: 
>>        Ken Smith <ksmith-at-ihug.co.nz>
>>    To: 
>>        Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>
>>
>>>If i use the bottle capacitor (6 pack) i read about here on the web, is
>>>this good enough ?
>>>this is my first project so i'll live with second best.
>>
>>
>>Kenneth (great Name),
>>                        although I am not really qualified to answer
>>much on
>>this list (being such a Tesla newbee and dolt to boot) I will attempt a
>>short answer :
>>
>>Bottles are OK - they work (I screwed around with screw tops for ages)
>>but
>>there is no substitute for getting yourself organised and getting a
>>decent
>>rolled poly cap built.  Look at it this way.  The damn thing (cap) needs
>>to
>>sit for a couple of weeks anyway unless you have access to a vacuum
>>pump- to
>>let the air get out.  And while you are waiting you can build yourself a
>>QUICK spark gap unit.  These two things are fundimental to getting a
>>half
>>decent coil on the floor and sparking.  The last step is to use
>>something
>>like NTESLA.EXE to design your coil.  Use the equipment / wire pipe
>>diameters that you have as fixtures and work around them.  In the end
>>you
>>will have a design that has a fair to reasonable chance of tuning and
>>working and amazing.  In all it it worth the effort to do it right from
>>the
>>getgo.
>>
>>There is nothing more expensive and frustrating (take it from me) than
>>having a half hearted go at a Tesla.  It is demanding technology (even
>>if it
>>seems primative to uninitiated eyes) and it demands care and attention
>>to
>>detail to get results.  The up side is that the results are spectacular
>>and
>>inspiring to greater things (or is that a down side from the bank
>>manager's
>>point of view <g>).  But if you screw around on the basics you will be
>>disappointed and out of pocket at best.
>>
>>In short - don't &*^k around - do it properly.  It seems like a lot of
>>work,
>>and it is.  But there is no alternative if you want a working coil.
>>
>>
>>Let us know how you get on...
>>
>>Ken(neth)
>>
>>Ken Smith
>>Weymouth
>>Auckland 
>>http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ksmith
>>ksmith-at-ihug.co.nz
>>
>>Ken,
>
>For a Newbee, you are no dolt.  You answered a question well and
>indicated
>just how much you have learned with the statement about the Tesla system
>seeming simple but not being trivial.  This is the first great wisdom to
>be
>recognized and accepted by the smart, advancing coiler!  Welcome on
>board
>and thanks for helpin' us old hands answer questions.  It is the only
>way
>the newer newbees will start chimin' in and keep the discussion and
>technique sharin' alive.  Chip has mentioned that the list is over 85%
>listeners who we never here from.
>
>Richard Hull, TCBOR
>
>


thanks to all of you out there who help us out...
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Kenneth Aaron 
E-mail : kennetha-at-geocities-dot-com
http://www.geocities-dot-com/SunsetStrip/8736/
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