Re: secondary inside of secondary

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

Hi Drew,

On 13 Mar 01, at 11:37, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Drew Murray by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <drewallmighty-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Hi,
> I was pondering the other day about what would happen if i put a
> smaller secondary inside of my current eight inch secondary. Would it
> boost performance or will it simply steal power? I am anxious to try
> this out but i will have to bring my big coil to school. My zip baggie
> caps are working much better than any of the salt water caps i have
> used before. My coil still needs improvement though. My longest sparks
> so far are about two feet long. Not really all that impressive but at
> least it works. I think that i need larger caps as i did not do the
> math to find out what the capacitance of my cap was and i don't have a
> meter that will measure the capacitance. Rotary spark gaps rule! I
> went from a static gap to a rotary gap and viewed a 300% performance
> increase. I first tried using copper wire as the electrodes but it
> wasn't making my coil perform better. I tried wood screws and they
> worked awesomely. I have found that when the tips of the screws are
> red hot the coil really starts to throw sparks. I think that this is
> because of something to do with the carbon in the steel screw. The
> heat aligns the carbon atoms or something.
>                                    Sincerely,
>                                    Drew Murray

Not a good idea in my opinion. You might end up destroying your large 
coil form.

Malcolm