Help PLEASE! So close.. and yet...

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Subject: Help PLEASE! So close.. and yet...
From: "Yuri Markov" <wmondale-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:13:08 -0600
Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Well, I fired up my "not shooting for anything glorious" coil for the 
first time. I had a problem. The transformer, capacitor, spark gap, 
and whole tank circuit work perfectly. Real nice, cool sounding 
sparks in the gap, everything perfect. Only one slight detail - the 
secondary coil and discharge terminal did nothing. Absolutely 
nothing. I tried grounding the bottom to a well, and then directly to 
the house ground, to no avail. In case it helps: The power supply is 
7500 volts at 30 milliamps(that's 220 watts). The capacitor is a 
leydan jar of an unknown capacitance. The primary is about five turns 
of really big fat copper stuff. As I said, that all works fine. The 
secondary is 30 AWG enamled magnet wire (the really thin red stuff - 
it was all I had) wound about 3/4 the height of a thin untreated 
cardbord wrapping paper tube (2 inches diameter). A softball wrapped 
nice and smoothly in aluminum serves as the discharge terminal. What 
is wrong? Is the cardboard conducting all the RF? Is the wire fatally 
thin? Help, please!

-Yuri Markov, would-be coiler

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