Re: rotary failure

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Original poster: "brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com>

Hi, well if there was a spark to the winding of the motor from the frame you
might not be able to see the damage untill you unwind the coils. lots of
times the outside looks fine till you get near to the frame. cul brian f.
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Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: rotary failure


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>
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> Well, so much for my effort over the past week to get an srsg running for
my
> TC. I got it all built, with the rotor and the electrodes and the
synchronous
> motor. It seemed to be running really well, that is until I hooked it up
to
> my coil. First of all, my safety gap began firing like crazy even though
it
> was set at the same spacing it had been for my static airblast gap. Then I
> noticed that when the safety gap or the rotary gap would fire, my motor
would
> kind of stall and jitter. I looked to make sure none of the high voltage
> wires were coming into contact with the motor or its wires. None seemed to
be
> touching it, so I turned the gap back on and the motor started to sound a
> little bit funny even though I didn't have power running to the tesla tank
> circuit. Then thick white smoke began to billow out of the vent on the
back
> of the motor. This was not just a little bit of smoke either, it was
enough
> to fill my patio with a white cloud. I shut the power off. The motor was
very
> hot so I had to wait a while to dismantle it. When I did, nothing seemed
to
> be wrong with it. There were no burn marks, everything was just covered
with
> a light layer of soot. Has anyone else out there experienced such a thing,
or
> heard of it happening?
>                                     Justin
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