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Re: Inactive coil
to: Andy
You have fell into a trap many new coil builders do. Start with some scrap
house wire and a 24-30 turn pri. Then you can find the proper tap for
resonance. Replace to wire to make it look pretty later --- but you need
the scrap wire to find initial resonance to be sure it's not outside of your
9 turns. Otherwise, nothing will work to get it running. Experiment
first --- make it neat later.
Regards,
Dr.Resonance
-----Original Message-----
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 5:15 PM
Subject: Inactive coil
>Original Poster: "Andy Cleary" <gemware2-at-dreamscape-dot-com>
>
> I have completed the coil as mentioned earlier, but as of yet I have not
>seen it do anything special. I have tuned the safety gaps, and everything
>fires normally. I do not get any sort of output from the coil, however. I
>have increased the coupling in order to reduce the arcing, and it no longer
>sparks. My only problem now is that it does nothing. I have tried the tap
>in different places, I have tried it with and without a toroid, I have
tried
>different transformers, etc. Is it possible that the secondary coil is the
>problem? Perhaps did it suffer damages from the arcing? It seems as
though
>if it were a case of bad tuning then I would at lest get some kind of
>reaction on the toroid, no matter how small. I did drill a hole in the
coil
>form and fed the wire into the pipe, then through smaller pipe to the
>toroid. would that be a problem? My primary coil is only 9 turns, could
>that be the problem? I have tried a different grounding wire and more. I
>do not understand what the problem is. The problems are normal for me, I
>have never had anything work on the first try.
>
>Thank you for hearing my complaints,
>
>-Andy
>
>