Re: Ryan's Coil

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 2/6/01 10:45:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original poster: "Ryan Ries by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <
> spud-at-wf-dot-net>
>  
>   Hey again.  We took some photos of the coil tonight, so hopefully I'll be
>  able to show them to the list this week.  The coil often strikes the ground
>  (6.5'), and has hit a grounded object over 7 feet away - with only 4.8 kW. 
>  But holy geez, do those MOTs get hot... they start smoking after only 30
>  seconds or so.  And they're solid metal, so it takes em' forever to cool
>  down.  Oh well...   Also, strikes to the primary are basically constant.  A
>  strike ring would keep the arcs from hitting the primary coil, but it would
>  still attract arcs itself.  I guess there isn't really anything we can do
>  about it without winding a taller secondary.
>  
>   -- Ryan Ries

Ryan,

You can place some smaller toroids under your main toroid to
raise the main toroid, if you haven't already done this.

John