RSG Sync

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• Subject: RSG Sync
• From: "fpeters" <fpeters-at-mindspring-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:24:10 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hello Everyone,
  I've been lurking for several months while building my coil, and
the discussion was a great help. For the last two days my efforts
have been on tuning my new coil, and last night it really started
to sing, creating 5 foot branching purple arc displays.
My main problems with tuning was the use of copper ribbon from
McMaster-Carr (.021 x 1.5 inch). It came into tune at 3.2 turns,
which really surprised me, but I highly recommend this material
and the G10 they sell. My coil uses the following:

1. 15 amp Variac
2. 100 to 1 scientific high voltage transformer (13KV)
3.  Synced 8 pole rotary spark gap
4.  2 blue 40KV  .01 MFD Caps (designed for the purpose)
5. 400 turn 11 inch secondary
6  22 inch toriod with break out points
7. 3.2 turns of .021 X 1.5 inch ribbon copper for primary

I still have one question, while looking at the spark gap with my Strobotac
I noticed that when I sync with 60 HZ line voltage the gaps are not lined
up. Would it work better if I rotate the gap ring on the motor shaft to line
them up?

Thanks for the great help.

Fred Peters
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fpeters-at-mindspring-dot-com
Fred.Peters-at-LADWP-dot-com
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