flat vs angled primary

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Subject: flat vs angled primary
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:17:44 -0500
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From:  richard hull [SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent:  Saturday, April 18, 1998 12:28 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: flat vs angled primary

At 07:10 AM 4/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>From:  Mad Coiler [SMTP:tesla_coiler-at-hotmail-dot-com]
>Sent:  Friday, April 17, 1998 10:53 AM
>To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject:  flat vs angled primary
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>Tesla List,
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>  I was wondering why the helical primary caused much more safety gap 
>firing. I thought of two possibilities. One was just because there was 
>slight corona discharge between the pri and sec coils that could be 
>placing an unwanted potential in the primary circuits. The other was 
>that the helical coil was more tightly coupled to the secondary and that 
>the secondary could then be inducing a higher current into the primary 
>circuits by mutual coupling?  
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>Comments are appreciated,
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>Tristan Stewart
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Your were tightly coupled with the cylindrical primary and far less coupled
with the flat spiral.

Richard Hull, TCBOR
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