Re: Newbie with a few questions...

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Mike,

The top few inches of the secondary under the beer cam look thicker.  Is
there something there or was that just the way the photo turned out?  

I have never seen corona in the center of the coil like that.  Not sure
what to say...

I trust you have tried tapping the primary from say 4 to 8 turns to be sure
it is tapped in the best place.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 01:38 AM 4/12/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz 
>><twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>>
>>Hi Mike,
>>
>>I must have missed the first post or two (not sure what power source or
>>values your using),
>
>Just a 10/23ma OBIT.
>
>>but I put your coil specs into JavaTC and ended up in a tuning range of
>>5.5 to 5.7 turns on the primary using your 0.008 to 0.009uF guestimate. >I 
>>know your primary is 8 turns, but not sure where your tuning at.
>
>Thank you. It's tapped right about 5.2 now, when I go home tonight I'll
>try changing it.
>
>>With sw caps, make sure there isn't carona eminating. A lot of power can 
>>leak there.
>
>I've heard of this, but luckily, so far with mine, I can't see any
>problems. Not even a hint even when the lights are out. I AM getting a
>visible corona off the top windings of my secondary though:
>http://www.geocities-dot-com/femptosecond/smallspks9.jpg
>( yeah, I know I spelled femto wrong ;) I suppose it could be the problem
>you were referring to regarding toroid cord size. Think that might have
>to get looked into tonight as well.
>
>thanks again,
>_Mike
>
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