Re: DArN CAPACITORS (author's response to John)!

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Original poster: "Drew Murray by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <drewallmighty-at-hotmail-dot-com>

John,
I have had my coil running on an old oil burner ingnitor. One of five 23ma 
10000v ingitors that i paid ten dollars for. The longest free arcing spark 
(not to grounded wire) was about 6 inches. It was a thin wiggling purple 
spark, one of many smaller ones crawling around the topload. This was done 
with a 7 wine bottle salt water capacitor. i have since blown every one of 
those transformers one by one. When i had them, i did not know that they 
could be paralelled to boost amperage. The spark length i want is not yet 
determined nor is it important. The key to winning this science fair is 
impressiveness. Sparks must be very long and loud!!! But it still needs to 
be safe, an easily attainable feature. Danger High voltage, do not touch!; 
the sign will read.
My coil is very nice and presentable. The stand is mointed on wheels and it 
is built with oak. I stained it varnished it and varnished it some more. No 
imperfections on the secondary whatsoever. It took me about a month to 
build. My primary needs to be redone. I had an inverted saucer style pri but 
i want to have a pancake style pri.


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: DArN CAPACITORS!
>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 08:23:32 -0700
>
>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" 
><FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>
>
>In a message dated 1/31/01 7:42:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>writes:
>
> > I want a bigger transformer, and i need more info on POTENTIAL
>TRANSFORMERS.
> >  >ie: How big? How are they different from distribution XFMRs (Pole 
>Pigs)
> >
> >  Others will have to fill you in on PT details...
> >
> >  >If I were wanting to build a MMC, where would I get the caps at a good
> >  >price. I am only a high school student hoping to enter my tesla coil 
>in a
> >  >science fair this march.
>
>Drew,
>
>I'm just curious, how long do you want your sparks to be?
>You can get 36" to 42" from a 12/30 NST.  60" to 63" from a
>15/60 NST.
>
>John
>
>
>

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