Re: Tesla Coil toroid Size (the point of no return)

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• Subject: Re: Tesla Coil toroid Size (the point of no return)
• From: "Norman F. Stanley" <nfs-at-midcoast-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 21:16:44 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 07:01 PM 9/14/98 -0600, Tesla List wrote:
>Original Poster: Richard Hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net> 
			<big snip>
>
> That same "disapointment coil" could easily prodce 3-6 times the spark you
>got!!!  (provided you haven't done something really stupid like wind a 6 foot
>tall coil on 1.5" pvc with #50 wire).  The key  is the Q factor related to
the
>builder.  I won't dare attempt to tread into this area!
>
>Richard Hull, TCBOR
>
I guess I did "something really stupid" way back in the 1930s when I
close-wound a ~30" secondary with #36 ssc wire on the hypothesis that more
turns  = more volts.  Fired up with a transformer home-brewed from the
innards of two Ford coils and a glass plate condenser.  I t gave me only a
4" discharge, but it was hot and crackling with enough energy to light a 25
watt bulb when conducted through my body (not at all shocking, though I did
get a hot foot through sparks to the nails in the floor boards.)

Norm

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