Re: B00ya! NSTs?

[Megavolt121-at-xxxxxxx (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Mike
    I disagree with Al in saying that you need more and bigger trannyrs and 
bigger and better everything. Sure those things will help get a bigger spark, 
but what you need to do now is to work on making your system more efficient 
and tuned properly. In my opinion, the only thing you should upgrade in your 
system right now are the capacitors and jump on the MMC bandwagon. Those caps 
last a long time, are small, light, very efficient, and a good bang for the 
buck. Once you have a new cap, I'm sure you'll see the sparks fly even 
longer/hotter than before, but before you get new caps, tuning you system and 
working out kinks will definately give you bigger sparks. Two years ago when 
i had first light, i got a good 40" spark using my 15/90 nst setup. i messed 
around with the sytem a bit and finally got the 48" spark before saying MORE 
POWER!... that was a fatal mistake because when i upgraded and added more 
power (15/180 bank of nsts), I started blowing caps, and then blowing more 
caps, and then frying a secondary. That was when I learned that more power 
isn't always the best.

good luck

-Alan

In a message dated 11/12/00 11:17:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

<< Original poster: "Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com> 
 
 Hi Michael.  You are now hooked!  You will now need to double up on
 everything that you have at the very least!  You need more and bigger
 trannys, bigger cap banks, bigger and better everything!  But, you know,
 I think you did very,very well with your first coil.  I was lucky to have
 1 and 1/2 inch sparks from my first coil.  You may become the new
 'sparkmeister' now that you are hooked on coiling!  I like the Potato of
 light!   AL.
 
 On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:18:15 -0700 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 writes:
 > Original poster: "Michael Deegan" <mdeegan-at-mediaone-dot-net> 
 > 
 > ok, this evening i got my first coil to work. ran it off a 12 kv-30 
 > ma
 > trannie. 6 inch sparks... but with a 6" coil and a 24" toroid i was
 > expecting more. i had to ditch the toroid and go to a potatoe-shaped 
 > top
 > load (which i affectionately dubbed potatoe of light). what should i 
 > do
 > to increase my spark length???? more NSTs? what kind? oh ya nad i 
 > have a
 > 6 pack-0-saltwater caps, 6 gap RQ style static.
 > 
 >  >>