Awsome first light !! but...

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Original poster: "The Big Giant Kevin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <neo4s-at-hotmail-dot-com>

WOW, 8 inch streamers, at 40 volts on the variac. Help from the list was 
invaluable; I could not have done it without you guys, thanks to everyone. 
But… I couldn’t seem to get the variac over 40 or 50 volts then my capacitor 
safety gap would start to fire. I set the cap safety gap to fire at 12 kV. 
Why was it so active with only 5 kV out of my NST? Tuning seemed to help 
reduce the safety gap firing, but not much. I didn’t spend a great deal of 
time tuning. I was in a small metal shed; it was 95 degrees outside, and 110 
degrees inside. Florida sucks in the summer, nothing but mosquitoes and 
humidity. Could tuning be my problem here? Nothing special in my setup, 
12/30 NST, Terry protection, static gap with fan, LTR cap, line filters. 
Thanks for any help, Kevin

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