Re:bewildered (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:23:13 -0600
From: ebyng <ebyng-at-netlimit-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re:bewildered

that can is probably your best bet at this point.  you might want to switch
over to an aluminum ducting torroid.  coffee cans and similar have odd
properties as they are like rebar in respects.They are composed out of all
different sorts of materials.

sorry if my spellings bad.  gotta hen-peck the keys today because i just
got all 4 wisdom teeth out.  useing the other  hand to hold the ice
pack.....

good luck.
Erik
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Original Message
From: "Tesla list"<tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: bewildered
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:23:34 -0700

>Original poster: "Matt Skidmore by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <fox-at-woozle-dot-org>
>
>Ive been having some trouble with my coil lately. its outputting about 1.5
>foot arcs to a grounded source when i feel i should be getting some more
>out of it. this is my lareger coil as seen on foxxz-dot-net. ill give a brief
>description of it here
>my mmc is composed of 4 capacitors of 15kv .02 mfd each. i usually use 3
>of these in series.
>a 7 gap spak gap. it has to make it through all the gaps to fire. 
>15kv 30 ma NST
>18 turn primary tapped at 16.75 i think
>4.5 inch pvs wound 26 inches. 
>
>the topload is pretty null. i have been using mainly a small tin can. it
>shoots sparks in all directions. probably if i could find some sort of
>torriod or metal sphere this would improve it greatly. the secondary is
>grounded and the first windings start about 1 inch abover the primary.
>
>i have a rotary spark gap in the making but it has not reached a sync
>state yet. luckily my college has the strobes and equipment to test for
>sync. i was wondering what improvements might be made to boost
>performance.
>
>-matt
>
>
>
>

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