Re: Still getting strange / poor results.

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Josh,

Once the arc is started, it can often be drawn quite a distance.  This is what
the Jacob's ladder does.  The arc is short at first, but once started, it can
be streached much longer.

"I" would always ground the case of the NST.  However, some may argue that
leaving the case ungrounded reduces the chances of internal arcing/shorting. 
If you don't ground the case, assume it is at high voltage and never touch it
when running.

Cheers,

        Terry


At 07:38 PM 1/27/2001 -0500, you wrote: 
>
> 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 
> ---------------------- 
> Denver, Colorado 
> MaverickIce00 (Changing to Arc Starter 3-at-aol-dot-com...)