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Re: Fwd: Equa-drive system
I would suggest setting up your original system because you know it works.
Then change things one piece at a time. If you add something new and the
system no longer works then you know the thing you just added doesn't work.
This will help you pin point your problem and fix it.
Gary Weaver
At 06:31 PM 11/10/98 EST, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 11/10/98 1:40:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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><< Hello All,
>
> I have incorporated my properly ballasted 5 Kva pig. I got one of
> Richard Hulls tapes on magnifiers. I have be building magnifiers for a
> couple of years with good luck. Now the old system used a water pipe as
> ground, 10 kv,300ma input, and ran like a champ with an intense 6'
> streamers for 30 minutes with out any problems.
> With a 14.4 Kv input and an equa-drive set up I can't get hardly
> anything out of it but an occasional thin 6 inch streamer. So I went back
> to my old tank configuration with one cap. This I did because I know it
> worked and where the tuning was. Guess what; it still had the same poor
> preference.
> One thing is I have three grounding rods separated 8 ft apart and
> soldered together. A good solid rf ground. Maybe this is the problem, I
> don't know. I have added a quench gap in series with the rotory, could
> the problem lye here?
> I suspected that with the higher power the quench is a lot harder to
> get, but that is why I put in the quench gap. It has eight pipes ( 1.75"
> dia x 2"long) and has a plenum with a 150 cfm blower forcing air through
> the 1/8" gaps.
> Anyone has a clue as to the short coming of my "up-grade". Any help is
> as always greatly appreciated. By the way, the TCBOR tapes are worth the
> money, especially those of new experience to TC's.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dwight
> >>
>
>Dwight,
>
>Your grounding system sounds just like mine. My three rods are
interconnected
>with 3.0" wide copper flashing. I also use a 5kva tansformer and did use a
>static gap in series with the rotary - but took it out at the advice of Bill
>Wysock. Did you use the rotary with the 300 ma 10 kv supply? I would guess
>that you would have to. My suggestion would be to fire the system with the
>old power supply and see what happens. If that doesn't work, keep restoring
>the system to the original configuration one step at a time until you find
the
>problem.
>
>Ed Sonderman
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>Original Poster: dwight duncan <duncand-at-ccsalpha2.nrl.navy.mil>
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>Hello All,
>
> I have incorporated my properly ballasted 5 Kva pig. I got one of
>Richard Hulls tapes on magnifiers. I have be building magnifiers for a
>couple of years with good luck. Now the old system used a water pipe as
>ground, 10 kv,300ma input, and ran like a champ with an intense 6'
>streamers for 30 minutes with out any problems.
> With a 14.4 Kv input and an equa-drive set up I can't get hardly
>anything out of it but an occasional thin 6 inch streamer. So I went back
>to my old tank configuration with one cap. This I did because I know it
>worked and where the tuning was. Guess what; it still had the same poor
>preference.
> One thing is I have three grounding rods separated 8 ft apart and
>soldered together. A good solid rf ground. Maybe this is the problem, I
>don't know. I have added a quench gap in series with the rotory, could
>the problem lye here?
> I suspected that with the higher power the quench is a lot harder to
>get, but that is why I put in the quench gap. It has eight pipes ( 1.75"
>dia x 2"long) and has a plenum with a 150 cfm blower forcing air through
>the 1/8" gaps.
> Anyone has a clue as to the short coming of my "up-grade". Any help is
>as always greatly appreciated. By the way, the TCBOR tapes are worth the
>money, especially those of new experience to TC's.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dwight
>
>
>