Re: First decent light with small disruptive TC

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Hhchicken1-at-aol-dot-com>

Hello again. 
I've made a new primary for "Hunk o' Junk" with some thick copper pipe 
wrapped around a plastic bin.  Sounds ugly but it doesn't look *too* bad :)  
I've added a few more MMC strings and with the primary tapped at 5.6 turns I 
get multiple 5" streamers breaking out and 10" arcs to a ground rod.  The 
spark gap melted a lot so I've made another, which is blown with a small fan 
from a microwave.  The fan isn't very powerful but it makes a lot of 
difference to the output! Still powerarcs after a few minutes' running but I 
don't plan to run it longer than a couple of minutes anyway. 

I'm really pleased with its performance, and I can't wait to show it off at 
the next UK Teslathon. 

Thanks everybody, 
Henry 

In a message dated 17/12/00 14:18:57 GMT Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> > 
> Congratulations Henry! 
> I think that the things will be better with a flat 
> primary coil. You can obtain discharge in the air with 
> a smaller topload.A fan cooler will prevent the arc 
> formation in your spark gap. 
> teslina