Sonderman's continuing saga

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Subject: Sonderman's continuing saga
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:27:30 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:52:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Sonderman's continuing saga

I was looking at my coil tonight when I was remounting the secondary and
spotted something I thought I would ask about.  The bottom of the secondary
is grounded by the use of a brass bolt.  There is a lug mounted on the lower
end of the secondary wire and that is connected to this brass bolt that goes
down through the plastic base on the coil, through the plastic spacer discs
that adjust the coupling and through the plywood base (top) on the roll
around cart.  The bottom of that brass bolt is connected to a 4.0" wide piece
of 12 oz copper that travels under the primary and down the side of the cart
and connects to the copper ground plane.

This 4.0" wide copper flashing is maybe only 4" under the primary (which is a
30 degree saucer design) and travels from just across center all the way
under one side.  I don't remember if this construction coincided with the
onset of these problems.  Is it possible that this is loading the primary
enough to cause all of my current problems??  I think I should remove this
and replace it with heavy wire coming up more directly from the bottom.

Comments??

Ed Sonderman