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Re: Big TC design
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com on 04.12.98 03:01:38
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
cc: (bcc: Marco Denicolai/MARTIS)
Subject: Re: Big TC design
Original Poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
>This is indeed a big coil. I did some reverse calculating and it looks
like
>your planned toroid capacitance is only about 60 to 70 pf. I have almost
that
>much on my 6.0" coil. I would think you would want one or maybe several
very
>large toroids for this coil. That will decrease the resonant frequency
even
>further and require more tank capacitance. I think designing the system
to
>use .10 uf would be a good idea. I use a .05 uf cap with my system.
>Ed Sonderman
Correct, I planned a 60 pF toroid.
- What kind of output are you getting with your 60 pF toroid?
- Is it a single streamer or not?
- Did you try with bigger/smaller toroids?
- How much power your coil uses?