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Finished Coil in Eau Claire, WI
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From: D.C. Cox [SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 1:34 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Finished Coil in Eau Claire, WI
to: Patrick
What cap size did you use? and how many turns on your primary? HV
terminal size? Transformer protection employed?? Sounds like a nice
performer overall. Hope you can drop into Baraboo this summer to see us
sometime.
DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
> From: Patrick J. Gustafson [SMTP:gustafpj-at-uwec.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 1998 1:13 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Finished Coil in Eau Claire, WI
>
> Hello all:
>
> Well, I finally finished re-winding my 6.625" secondary with #22 magnet
> wire, instead of the proposed #28. The winding length is around 21.5"
> and I'm getting the common 40" discharges with 15kV at 60mA. I'm quite
> pleased since this is my first coil. I demonstrated the coil to some of
> the professors and some students and they thought it was one of the
> coolest demo's they had ever seen. Too bad I have to leave it behind in
> Eau Claire. Thanks to everyone on this list for helping me build this
> thing, it turned out rather well. I'm finishing my electrical
> engineering degree in Madison and I will not have time to work on
> another coil, but I am going to try my hand at magnifiers when I'm
> done. So until then, hope everyone has a good summer and I'll be back
> on the list in about a year and a half to two years.
>
> Patrick Gustafson
>