Re: 20" sparks with salt water cap

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: 20" sparks with salt water cap
From: alfred.skrocki.sr-at-juno-dot-com (Alfred A Skrocki) (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 04:33:09 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:39:20 -0600 Cabbott Sanders
<cabbott-at-cyberis-dot-net> wrote:

>I have my small tesla coil fully optimized now.  I don't think there is 
>any way to increase spark length beyond 20" with this setup which
includes:
>
>2 foot tall Glass Jug salt water cap (glows in the dark)

The fact that yout capacitor is glowing in the dark is a sure sign that
it is wasting energy! I am quite confident that if you were to replace
your salt water cap with an oil filled polyethylene capacitor, you will
get a noticible increase in your output spark length! Perhaps maybe even
to 3 feet, which is not all that unusual for a NST like yurs, ie. 15 KV -at-
60 ma. or 900 watts! BTW you can get a bit more out of your system by
removing a few (NO MORE THAN about 3) magnetic shunts from our NST. This
will increase the current output to around 80 ma.
                               Alfred A. Skrocki
                          Alfred.Skrocki.Sr-at-JUNO-dot-com
                 Visit my Do-It-Yourself Aquarium WEB page at:
                  http://WWW.GeoCities-dot-com/CapeCanaveral/6251

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