Re: Fustrated medium coiler

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Pjj,

I would go to just one MOT for the time being till you get it sort of going. 
Then you can add more power and all.

The microwave cap is far too high of value to be of any use at all.

Your salt water caps should be fine although they could be better.

You need to "tune" the primary and secondary coils to resonant at the same
frequency.  You can very the tuning of the primary by experimenting with where
the primary is tapped at.  By altering the number of active turns in the
primary, you will change the primary frequency until it matches the secondary
(you will know when it is right ;-)).  

When the cap dicharges into the primary coil at the right frequency, the
secondary will pick up the energy and transform it to the very high voltage and
make streamers.  You may want to check out:

http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~electronxlc/howworks.html
http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~electronxlc/tccalc.html

Cheers,

        Terry


At 06:27 PM 11/25/2001 -0800, you wrote: 
>
> Alright i know i have a lot of weak links in my tank
>  
> 1 - i'm using 2 mot's 2ndaries are in a series primiaries in parrell (blows
> breakers easy)
>  
> My primary was 1/2 apart i shrunk it to 1/4 inch distance
>  
> i tried my SW cap which is small (.005 uf yes .00) i also tried to a .91 uf
> micro wave cap (makes the spark gap LOUD)
>  
> spark gap is just a single gap till it fires (hard with a MOT)
>  
> 2ndary is 22ga. wound tight on 2 1/2" PVC for 24 inches (is that to long?)
>  
> With this thing i get nothing no corona no break out nothing
>  
> any advise is appriciated