nathan update

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• Subject: nathan update
• From: "Nathan Ball" <nateburg-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:58:55 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hello, All

I now have another update.  After trying a jacob's ladder again and 
confirming the livelihood of my transformer, I moved to a simple bolt-air 
blast gap.  After a tiny bit of tuning (it's still not quite there yet) I 
began to get 8-10 inches of nice forked breakout into the air. Now I won't 
have to use that silly lineman's hook with a grounded wire in it to draw 
arcs!  That is a bit encouraging.

It still seemed at first to be trying to stop the spark gap from firing, but 
after messing with it a bit I found that I wasn't really turning the variac 
up to the 120v point, only about 100v.

thanks for the help everyone.

Also, I want to start doing some LTR try-outs, and was wondering if anyone 
would be willing to go in on a deal with some more of those wonderful 
Panasonic caps.  They've been great for me, but are still a bit expensive 
unless bought in great quantities.

Thank you for the help again!
I'll see if I can't find some more problems for my coil to come up with, so 
you all don't run out of things to do!  ;-)))

Nathan
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