Re: Still getting strange / poor results.

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <MaverickIce00-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 1/27/01 5:13:32 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 

Hi Terry, List, 

>
> I think you said the NST was jumping like 1 to 2 CM sparks so it seems 
> fine.  When they die, the sparks are tiny.



Only 1 - 2 cm for a 15/30? I'm kinda wondering if there's something weird 
going on with my 7.5/30, I can draw very hot arcs (flames) between terminals 
about 1.75" - 2" (4.445 cm - 5.08 cm) long. I'm pretty new at this 
transformer thing (I was previously working with capacitors and voltage 
levels around 300). But unless you mean sparks to the case, I usually get ~1 
cm sparks with my NST. A quick question though, I leave my NST ungrounded 
when I run my Jacob's Ladder and i'm wondering if this will be a problem when 
I start running my TC (still workin' on it...). 

Regards, 

Josh Hunsaker 
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Denver, Colorado 
MaverickIce00 (Changing to Arc Starter 3-at-aol-dot-com...)