RE: MMC Cap astonishing!! YAY!!

["Garry Freemyer" <Garry-at-NDFC-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

>Did you tune outwards
about 2 turns or so when you installed the larger toroid to keep it in tune?

If I understand you right, I did.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: MMC Cap Results. WOW!


> Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 10/4/00 6:56:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> >
> >  5.61 seems to be the best setting I could get without getting LONG
racing
> >  sparks on the secondary. I was not sure if the racing was caused by too
> > close
> >  coupling or being out of tune.
> >
> >  After 5.61, it bacame difficult to see much difference. I suspect I
would
> > get
> >  better results from a larger toroid
> >
> >  I tried a 4" by 18" dryer duct toroid but there was no breakout and
sparks
> > at
> >  the 5.61 setting was about 8" I believe this was because the toroid was
so
> > big
> >  it was radiating most of the energy instead o storing it.
>
> Garry,
>
> Well those are nice results you're getting now.  Did you tune outwards
> about 2 turns or so when you installed the larger toroid to keep it in
> tune?  You may need a breakout point at first on the larger toroid
> to find the right tune point, then you can probably remove the
> breakout point.  The racing sparks are probably just caused by
> a little too close coupling.  Did you try raising the secondary
> by 1" or so to try to stop them?
>
> John Freau
>
>
>>Did you tune outwards
about 2 turns or so when you installed the larger toroid to keep it in tune?

If I understand you right, I did.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: MMC Cap Results. WOW!


> Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 10/4/00 6:56:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> >
> >  5.61 seems to be the best setting I could get without getting LONG
racing
> >  sparks on the secondary. I was not sure if the racing was caused by too
> > close
> >  coupling or being out of tune.
> >
> >  After 5.61, it bacame difficult to see much difference. I suspect I
would
> > get
> >  better results from a larger toroid
> >
> >  I tried a 4" by 18" dryer duct toroid but there was no breakout and
sparks
> > at
> >  the 5.61 setting was about 8" I believe this was because the toroid was
so
> > big
> >  it was radiating most of the energy instead o storing it.
>
> Garry,
>
> Well those are nice results you're getting now.  Did you tune outwards
> about 2 turns or so when you installed the larger toroid to keep it in
> tune?  You may need a breakout point at first on the larger toroid
> to find the right tune point, then you can probably remove the
> breakout point.  The racing sparks are probably just caused by
> a little too close coupling.  Did you try raising the secondary
> by 1" or so to try to stop them?
>
> John Freau
>
>
>