Re: A thought on why my TC doesn't seem to like a LTR MMC

["sundog" <sundog-at-xxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Hi Gary, All,

  What kind of gap are you using?  If you're using a rotary, you'll
have to re-adjust the phase on it, because the cap voltage will
peak later, as it takes longer to charge the cap.  If you're using
a static gap, you may try some airflow, cleaning the gap, and
possibly running the gap a bit smaller.  Going from a resonant cap
to an LTR cap may be dropping the voltage just enough so that the
gap is that tiniest bit too wide.  If you have the opportunity, run
a 120bps gap.  You'll tune in on the primary with the LTR cap, but
I've gotten excellent results with LTR caps.  Be sure to let us
know how it works out! :)
                                            Caio!
                                                Sundog
-----Original Message-----
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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Sunday, November 19, 2000 5:11 PM
Subject: A thought on why my TC doesn't seem to like a LTR MMC


>Original poster: "Garry F." <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>I have found that my tesla coil works best when the EMMC is .0061
uF and
>anything more causes a kind of sputtering output. It's as if the
12/30 nst
>isn't able to charge the EMMC when it gets LTR.
>
>I was thinking, perhaps it's the bleeder resisters bleeding off
some of the
>charge and this is why the coil starts to sputter.
>
>Ordinarily, I am told that .01 uF would be LTR but maybe this
applies to caps
>that don't have bleeder resisters on them. On the other hand,
other people seem
>to do just fine with LTR EMMC caps so maybe I am barking up the
wrong tree.
>
>Woof Woof!
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