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Re: Intro.., and Protection Filters
Hi Steve, All,
many thanks for your friendly words, appreciating my homepage.
With currently 82" my sparks are indeed longer than myself (63")
;-) The sparks you can see on my homepage are only about 67". So
being quite happy about the growing length, I would perhaps not
be a TC-enthusiast, if not trying to get out more of what I feel,
the secondaries should be good for...! Of course the strike rails
have a gap to avoid beeing a shorted turn, but you are right, it
cannot be seen in the pic's. perhaps you noticed, that even my
corona rings at the upper end of the sec'windings, have a gap.
My former question about the need of protection filters for
potential transformers has not yet found an answer. I'm using
filters currently, and probably in future too, but would
appreciate to know, how other coilers experience or opinion on
using/not using those devices is.
Cheers, Kurt
Tesla List schrieb:
>
> Original Poster: "Steve Young" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-com>
>
> Hi Kurt,
>
> I enjoyed looking at your photos, especially your twin. In some of the
> text, you mentioned you thought you should be getting longer sparks than you
> are.
>
> This prompted me to see if I could spot a gap in your strike rail. I didn't
> see one in your photos, but no one photo showed the entire strike rail.
> >From what I see in your photos, you are an expert and no doubt have a gap.
> But if you don't have a gap in the rail, it will act as a shorted turn and
> will waste some of the available energy which otherwise would go to your
> secondary. This could account for less than the performance you want.
>
> Again, thanks for a great website!
>
> --Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 6:55 AM
> Subject: Intro.., and Protection Filters
>
> > Original Poster: Kurt Schraner <k.schraner-at-datacomm.ch>
> >
> > Hi everybody, I joined this list shortly ago. Beeing one of the
> > few Swiss TC-enthusiasts, I was watching it in the archives only,
> > for some time. Shure, it has helped me a lot, and the first thing
> > is to say a big "thank you" to many of you list-members.
> > Currently my TC coiling activities concentrate on a
> > 8"twin-system, of which I'm getting 2.1m(82") sparks at the
> > moment. If you like to see more about it (-and me-), please have
> > a look at my homepage:
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> > http://home.datacomm.ch/k.schraner/index.htm
> > Kurt Schraner