RE: Primary Tap

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: RE: Primary Tap
From: "Basura, Brian" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:13:05 -0700
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Weazle,

If your primary is 1/4" copper tubing then a chassis mount fuse holder will
snap right on (be sure to connect both sided to your primary cable). This
has worked great for me but I fear I'm nearing it's limits on my coil. The
next step will be a machined copper clamp (slower to adjust but the
connection is secure and the current can be spread out over a larger contact
area).


Brian Basura
Who is now throwing continuos 6' and occasional 7' strikes to the ground
using a small (size wise) EMMC on my 6" coil. hehehee...



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 7:49 PM
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Subject: Primary Tap


Original Poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca> 


Hello Coilers:

What do you fellows with the higher powered coils use for making
the tap connections to your primaries while tuning?  On my new,
higher powered coil, I found that even a good quality alligator
clip wasn't making a solid enough connection and I had to use a
copper clamp bolted in place.  This obviously slows the whole
tuning process down.  Any suggestions?


73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL

Listening: 147.030+ and 442.075+
E-mail:    weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca
           or ve3ear-at-rac.ca
Web site:  www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle