Re: twin coil system

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

Hi Bob,

You may want to check out Brian Basura's dual coil paper at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/MiniTwin8-95.zip

Cheers,

	Terry


At 02:05 AM 1/7/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>As  I now have a source of wire for the second  9.5" 45"  secondary of
>my planned twin system (thanks Duncan) thought it might be useful to
>read the thread on winding direction. I still don't know whether to wind
>the new secondary in the same direction or the opposite direction. Any
>ideas? Could someone recommend the best way to connect a twin system.
>Should I just make a mirror of the first coil and connect the primaries
>together. If I do that how should I ground the secondaries? Or should I
>make another completely separate system with say two spark gaps running
>on  the same shaft of  one sync motor and sharing the transformer and
>ballast's. What is the consensus on twin systems. I feel I still have a
>lot to learn about the subtleties of tuning before I tackle a magnifier
>so I thought this might be a good halfway house. I can't really wind the
>secondary till the weather gets warmer anyway but thought I would start
>planning now at least as I should have al the parts together soon. Don't
>know what happened to the table top coil. Give a man some space...;-))
>like a museum, or aircraft hanger, oh no not an aircraft hanger please.
>
>cheers
>bob golding
>