Re: toroid size

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

	If your only getting 1" sparks, I would suspect the primary and secondary
are not tuned to the same frequency.  Your primary coils is probably not
big enough to tune with the saltwater caps at the moment.  You could add
more primary turns which is usually not easy but you probably just need
more primary capacitance.  I think the much higher value MMC will fix this
the easiest.  Don't worry, it will work fine once everything gets tuned and
all.  There are some programs running around that will do the calculations
but I would make a better cap the first priority.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 10:04 PM 11/13/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Youve probably read about my 6" coil in the previous days posts...
>The toroid i orignally made was 3.5" X 20.5"  But i could only draw inch
>long arcs from it. it is powered by a 12/30 trannie. im constructing a
>MMC to replace my cureent saltwater caps. Does the height of the toroid
>above the secondary matter arc-length wise??? When i get my new 15/60
>trannies can i go back to using my old toroid??? is it just too big for
>my coil???
>
>find out on the next episode of the mailing list....
>no, really... i need help... i got 6-8" arcs from my fist-sized potatoe
>of light, but i was drawing some heavy corona off the top of the
>secondary...
>