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Re: Golka coil specs
Subject: Re: Golka coil specs
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 22:38:20 +0000
From: "Bert Pool" <bertpool-at-flash-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 01:42:19 -0500
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Golka coil specs
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: Golka coil specs
> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 20:50:42 -0800
> From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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[snip]
> Thanks Malcolm -- sometimes I think that Golka was being punished
> by the Gods of Aesthetics, for his many grievous sins in that regard.
> His Wendover setup apparently used *toilets*, in order to support
> the primary winding. I suppose that they _are_ good insulators (if
> properly cleaned) and they _can_ hold up several hundred pounds,
> but, but,...
>
> I hope to learn from the mistakes made on my present coil (whose name
> is the 120L50K), if and when I build the next one (whose name will be
> the 180L120K.) Amongst the improvements will be a higher surge
> impedance for the primary ckt (~16 ohms), a larger top electrode
> capacitance (~330 pF), and a faster gap rate (400 PPS).
>
> -GL
>
Greg, thanks for the tip! Toilets huh? I love it, I really do.
Bert Pool
bertpool-at-flash-dot-net