Re: Tesla Coil Blunderbusses

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Ralph,
          What timebase setting are you using?

M

On 23 Apr 01, at 18:47, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>
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> Malcolm,
> I have never used a STO scope. The Tek 545B is capable of some
> fantastic triggering action. I have been playing around with the
> antenna placement and backing off the variac to see a nice clear
> ringdown. Placing the automobile whip antenna parallel (Horizontal) to
> the coils and several feet away seems to produce the best patterns.
> The patterns are too jittery to see the first several notches but the
> rest of the trace is clear and sharp. By increasing the sweep rate and
> fiddling with the triggering I think I can see the RF signal. I cannot
> see any beats. John Freau has been patiently trying to teach me
> something about the scope traces but the learning is very slooow. My
> 48 inch bipolar has now been coaxed into giving out a 40 inch spark.
> Do you have any suggestions on how I might get this sick pup to put
> out the remaining 8 inches? I am especially interested in using
> whatever diagnostics I can get from the scope to optimize the SG
> performance.
> 
> Happy day,
> Ralph Zekelman
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