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Re: Magnifier pics
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Re: Magnifier pics
Date:
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:55:04 -0500
From:
"Edward J. Wingate" <ewing7-at-frontiernet-dot-net>
To:
Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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Tesla List wrote:
>
> Subject:
> Magnifier pics
> Date:
> Sat, 22 Mar 1997 13:00:44 -0600 (CST)
> From:
> Bert Pool <nikki-at-fastlane-dot-net>
> To:
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>
> I posted some pictures of a large Jacob's ladder (5 kva, 34.5 KV
> transformer) as well as some shots of last Saturday night's magnifier
> run.
> The extra coil wanted to arc from the top to bottom corona ring,
> shorting it
> out, but I still got some 4 footers out. The secondary was showing
> signs of
> inter turn arcing, so I'm gonna tear it down and rebuilt it with some
> good
> HV test prod wire I have on hand.
>
> I now appreciate what Richard Hull and Ed Wingate, and others, have gone
> through on building large working magnifiers. If you start to use the
> smaller physical extra coils like Hull does, things have to be perfect,
> and
> you don't even know what "perfect" necessarily entails!
>
> Bert Pool
> nikki-at-fastlane-dot-net
Bert,
You have DONE in a few short months what many others would have only
talked and theorized about and you are to be commended for your efforts!
Magnifiers are definitely a different breed of animal and the only way
to get a handle on the operation of them is to build one!! Keep winding
extra coils and keep experimenting with different primary and driver
configurations and each one will be better than the last, (well, not
always). You aren't magnifin' until you've got extra coils scattered all
over the lab!
I, for one, do not know what "perfect" is where magnifiers are
concerned, or classic coils for that matter, but I think we all strive
for that goal. Keep up the great work, and as Richard Hull aptly said
"onward and upward" and you'll be kicking all our butts.
I'm rootin' for ya on this end!
Ed Wingate