Re: quick trial...no luck terry

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

hi Danny,

At 12:08 AM 7/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>hey terry   i did a quick trial with the fan shroud topload installed and  
>the primary tapped at a little less than 4 turns with no success.  i am very 
>tired and i'm not up to playing with it any more tonight.

Yes,  Best to be well rested and laert when working on Tesla coils!!


>i will check out 
>all my connections and try a different ground for the secondary.  i am 
>currently using a 2 foot long steel rod pounded into the flower bed in front 
>of my apartment.  the spark gap seemed to be getting hotter.  the tip of it 
>is melting off pretty fast   i might have to make a better design there also. 
> so far my only ground is the lower side of the secondary.  am i missing a 
>ground maybe.  is there a way to test out how good that grounding rod is 
>working?     -danny 

Any ground rod shold be good enough to at least get some spark.  It seems
like something must be wired wrong.  Check your setup against the diagram at:

http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~electronxlc/howworks.html#how

Do you have any balast on the MOT?  I am not an expert on MOT systems so
others can help us here.  Without a ballast, the gap may just be power arcing.

So check all the component wireing and let us know about the ballast.  It
sure sounds like everything is right but there is something basic
preventing it from working.

A few others have come up with the tap point around turn four so that is
probably pretty close.  Something else must be wrong. 

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