RE: Ryan's Coil = DOES NOT WORK!

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Original poster: "David Dean by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <deano-at-corridor-dot-net>

Hi Ryan

Do you still have that dryer element?
If so try that.
A Jacobs ladder is very touchy with inductive ballast. They are easy with a
resistor. If you can't get it to work with a resistor, there must be
something wrong with the pig.

later
deano

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 7:45 PM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Ryan's Coil = DOES NOT WORK!
>
>
> Original poster: "Ryan Ries by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <spud-at-wf-dot-net>
>
> 	This is not really a problem with my Tesla coil itself, I'm
> just working
> getting the power supply to work.  We spent all day today trying
> to get the
> pole pig to fire a Jacob's ladder.  We are using two microwave oven
> transformers.  It will not work.  We tried shorting secondaries and not
> shorting them.  If we ever get any spark at all, it is extremely tiny and
> weak.  We have no powerstat (highschool student budget + 10kva powerstat =
> no solution).  The mailing list seems to give some general
> consensus that a
> couple of series MOT's should work fine, but it sure doesn't for us.
> Uhm... help?
>
> 	-- Ryan Ries
>
>
>