Re: A couple cruddy coil pics

["Mike Novak" <acmnovak-at-xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

Any body know the URL for the pics of Robert Stevens' coil? I bookmarked it
a while back but have since lost it. :(
The coil was really cool looking with those rings on the secondary and he
even had a hangar for it complete with a gantry crane to set the secondary
in place. Thanks,

-Mike

> Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> Mike,
>
> Nice observation. I took another look at the image, saved it to disk, then
> changed the gamma to 1.8. The rings were then clearly visible and kind of
> tinted
> blue? This is a similar design that Robert Stevens' has used. If I
remember
> correctly, these type of disks are used to increase surface creep distance
> between top potential and ground along the secondary's length. But "cool"
is
> another likely candidate. It will be interesting to hear if the disks were
used
> to correct a problem.
>
> Bart