coil update...

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

Hi All...


did some modifications to the inductor and reran the coil tonite  ( 02-11-01)
output increased by another 25% ... from an avg 8' to an easy 10' streamer.(
occasional 12')

the previous inductor was running at 22 A all i had to do was slide the
coil assy
off of the core by about 25%..  this increased the Amerage to 40 A.

the bad part of the modification was a noticeable increase of heating of
the caps (
2 maxwells in series each at 50KV .114uF ) previously they would rise about 5
degrees now they go to about 35 degrees above ambient air temp.

also increased the timing of the SRSG a bit forward to hit the peak of the
charge
wave ( but this increased the safety gap activity by quite a bit) was
originally
running SRSG at about 5 - 10 degrees BTDC ( wasnt using the full
"potential" of the
caps)

since i have the power available and a SRSG should i parallel the caps for
50KV at
.228uF and retune ( altho this will be LTR by 2X) and go for the bigger
bang ??  or
do i go for .114uF -at- 50KV and see what that does?

Im asking cuz id hate to blow an expensive cap "experimenting" ...

btw  im still working on a saturable core inductor ( i came across a 30KVA
transformer 3 phase that i think i may be able to work with )

Scot D