Re: Top-load-less TC

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Al,
       You may have done this previously and I may have missed it but 
would you please (re)post your secondary coil design details.

Regards,
malcolm

On 12 Jun 01, at 18:38, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "albert hassick by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
> 
> Hi Bart,  the large toroids consisted of a combination of the following
> ducts.   4" and 6" flex aluminum.  And 3",4",5",6",8",10" stovepipe. Like
> I say, no matter what topload, regardless of how large or small, my coil
> can produce equal arcs.  In other words, if I put a peanut upon the top
> of my secondary then I would get the same length arc from its beginning
> as I would from a 6" aluminum duct toriod. I will simply end up with a
> toasted peanut!  The coil parameters simply need adjusted to compensate
> for the size, if any of the topload. Bart, here is where I leave off from
> my reply to you and now turn my attention to other members of the
> list.......  Hey, it already works for me,  I am no whiz at computer
> programs or math, so you guys tell me what is going on here.  A lot of
> measurements that some list members want to prove my findings I cannot
> give, since I do not have access to all the test instruments that some
> take for granted, nor am I completely certain of the means to apply these
> requests to the instruments of measurement that I do have. Hey why not
> build a carbon copy of my coil for yourself, and then you can see for
> yourself the ability to get equidistant arcs from any topload simply by
> fine tuning your coil. Then you will be able to tell if 'parasitic
> capacitance' is the cause.  Maybe 'parasitic capacitance' is a virtue, in
> that it enables one to adjust a Tesla for a variable topload.  Perhaps
> 'parasitic capacitance' can be construed as a means of really fine tuning
> a Tesla to the earth.  Is that not possible?   Al.
> 
> On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:03:00 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> writes:
> > Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz 
> > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> > 
> > Hi Al,
> > 
> > I still would like to know the major and minor dimensions to your 
> > "large"
> > toroid. Most of the other
> > top loads you identified are small and there will be very little 
> > change
> > between them. Even the 10"
> > sphere is only 14pF minus secondary, ground, and nearby object 
> > effects. So
> > it's small as well. You
> > didn't post your toroid dimensions and I'm curious if your toroid 
> > is
> > possibly too large (or too
> > small).
> > 
> > I honestly don't believe your coil is an anomoly. It is also 
> > possible that
> > when you say "large
> > toroid", we have something in mind like an 8" x 32" (edge to edge
> > diameters) in our minds and it's
> > really much smaller than this. Finding the proper toroid size takes 
> > some
> > time and testing to truely
> > find it for your coil. It can be too small or too large. For myself, 
> > the
> > large toroid dimension is
> > currently a missing piece of data.
> > 
> > Sorry to hear about your recent pc crash. Don't feel alone, I've 
> > gone
> > through several this year on
> > 2 different pc's. I now keep the same info on both if one goes 
> > down.
> > 
> > Take care,
> > Bart Anderson
> > 
> > Tesla list wrote:
> > 
> > > Original poster: "albert hassick by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
> > >
> > > Hi Bart,  The "spring" is a natural year round flowing earth 
> > spring, it
> > > is in the back acre of my house and it seemed a excellent place to 
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