Re: I Think I Messed up!

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

Hi Patrick,
            The cure is simple:

On 3 Dec 2001, at 11:31, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Patrick Leonard by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <transactoid-at-rogers-dot-com>
> 
> My primary consists of just under 15 turns of 1/4" copper pipe spaced 1/4"
> apart. My secondary is 4" x 28" wound with 28 guage wire. I just ran QuickTC
> and it indicates the tap point would be turn 18!!! I didn't design for
this at
> all!
>  
> Do I have any recourse?? I really *cannot* scrap my primary and rebuild!
>  
> Please give me some words of re-assurance.

Use more primary capacitance.

Regards,
malcolm