topload problems

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Original poster: "Will Daniels by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla_is_god-at-37-dot-com>

Hi all,
     I just finished my six inch coil the other day but I cant seem to get
more than 1 foot arcs.  My secondary's winding length is 2 feet and my
power supply is two 12Kv/30ma NSTs with a six sectioned static gap and 24
beer bottle caps.  Soon I'm hoping to get a better capacitor so I can
enlarge my NST bank.  It seems that the larger my topload gets the shorter
my arcs get which goes against everything I've read.  I tried a dryer duct
toroid about 10" wide but I think the break out point must be too high
cause I get nothing.  I've tried everything from bolts to mixing bowls and
it seems that a bare wire some how works best.  Any ideas on how I can
improve my output would be helpful.
     
     -Will Daniels  

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