RE: Biggg Coil run

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi Kevin

Can you say something about the homebrew HV transformers I see at your site.


Where did you get those big cores?

Are the windings machine wound?

Did you use mathematics to make designs?

What kind of insulation did you use?

How long did it take you to make one?

Godfrey Loudner


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tesla list [SMTP:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent:	Saturday, July 14, 2001 8:55 PM
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> Subject:	Biggg Coil run
> 
> Original poster: "Kevin R Eldredge by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kreld-at-juno-dot-com>
> 
> All
> 
>   Dave Wightman came down last weekend, And took some digital pic's of
> the Biggg Coil with his new nifty micro camara.  They can be seen at
> www.flash-dot-net/~kreld/kevin's.htm.  Click on Bigg Coil page.   We ran the
> Coil with an async high break rate rotary first, results were
> predictable.   Only several feet of toroid discharge, and close to 200
> amp input.  That rotary was chucked out, and the 120 BPS rotary went back
> in.    Tests were again done with the vacuum static gap in series with 
> the rotary.  It just plain had better discharges without the static gap,
> it seems last year it worked better with the static gap in series, but
> that might have been when it was running 240 BPS, memory problems after 8
> months since experiment.
> 
>   There was some wind again that night, but managed 22 foot plus
> discharges.   There was a strike to the rotary gap power lead we think,
> which blew a fuse, the low voltage DC regulator & contactor drive
> circuit.   15 minutes later after slight modification, sparks were flying
> again.
> 
>   Still working on the voltage divider for the o-scope voltage reading
> experiment & future varible phase adjustable 120 BPS rotary.
> 
> Coiling in Oklahoma
> 
> Kevin E.
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