Re: Ryan's Coil = DOA :(

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Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>

Hi John

What technic do you use to prevent the wire from moving on a polyethylene form.

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
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> In a message dated 1/10/01 11:46:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
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> Al,
>
> The free-standing coil that you advocate, is not free standing at all.
> The coating that holds it together may have just as much loss as
> a typical plastic form.  Also, carbon can track right through the
> coating material.  Regarding the amount of loss in a typical
> plastic form.... it is negligable.  You will not see any difference in
> spark length with or without a form.  You are correct that I aim for
> max efficiency in my coils.  But I only concern myself with things
> that will cause a noticeable improvement.  I often use polyethylene
> for my forms, which does not seem to carbon track.  The losses
> are super low, completely negligable for our purposes.
>
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> John Freau
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