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Re: 3Rd Light - UPDATE



Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Just a thought Simon,

When you made changes to the primary, you physically moved it. Is it
possible that you have your primary
mounted on wood? Carbon tracks occur on the surface or within wood. When
this occurs, power to secondary
plumits. When you moved it, you may have moved the primary away from a
possible carbon track but decreased
coupling greatly. It's hard to say and just something that is always worth
checking.

Most of the programs will get your tune point very close. If you are
getting really poor performance, then
there is something else going on (connections, high losses due to a shorted
turn in the secondary or carbon
tracks through the primary form, or a component which includes main
components and other secondary
components such as filters). It seems as though something is stealing power
and you need to track down the
thief.

Good luck,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Simon Yorkston by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <quantumx-at-ozemail-dot-com.au>
>
> Hi All.
> I've just finished 3rd light testing, and well, you can basically ignore my
> last posting.
> Still getting queer results.
>
> > I powered up, still got nothing. on a whim, I tapped the primary as far as
> it could go. I induced some tiny corona to the earth pole I had setup about
> 1' away. Interested, I pulled apart the primary, and INCREASED the inner
> diameter[ decreasing the coupling]. Powered up, and got the good ol' white
> sparks [yeah], but only from about 4 inches away. [note- I also grafted some
> more piping on the primary, but sparks were decreased if I tapped any
> further from the afore mentioned spot]
>
> Hmm. What the heck is going on? The first time I ran the coil, the primary
> inner diameter was much greater [~2"] and tapped on turn 15 I think, and I
> got 1 1/2' sparks [not white].
>
> This is defying all of the calculations that you guys did... Have you got
> any clues to what the hell is going on? Because I really want to get this
> thingo going, and keep getting my appetite whet..
>
> Should I increase the inner diameter, or decrease it.. or what?
>
> Thanks, and take care,
>  Simon
> [[feel free to give me the answer in the form of "just tap the NST once and
> it will be fine"]] :))