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Re: poor performance
From: Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 1997 5:17 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: poor performance
On Friday, November 28, 1997 6:57 AM kevin
[SMTP:wawa-at-spectra-dot-net] wrote;
> I'm not quite sure why, but lately the performance of my coil has
> greatly decreased. I've tried about everything i can think of but
> nothing seemed to work. Actually, I started out getting decent results
> and ended with near nothing. Does it have anything to do with the cold?
> Also, after adding some more capacitors, when I turn up my variac
> nothing happens until over half the power. While I'm turning it up I
> can hear a little hum/fizz from my caps.
It sounds like your transformer isn't putting out full output, try
mesasuring it's output if you can.
> And finally I have a question about rolled caps. If you roll up a cap
> and then put it in PVC and it expands a bit is that bad?
It depends on how much they expand. It is a good idea to tie the rolled
capacitor while it is still tightly rolled, with either long nylon cable
ties or nylon cordage.
> Say you have two caps, both of the same size materials. One is rolled
> tighter than the other to fit in a smaller radius, would they
> essentially be different capacitors?
Yep! the tighter capacitor will have a bit higher capacitance.
Sincerely
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