Re: LTR problems

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

It's that 1 turn primary.... I suspect that you aren't getting all that
great a coupling, and that resistive losses are biting you.

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Robert by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<obiwan1186-at-sunflower-dot-com>
> 
> in anticipation of the trigger gap i'm working on, I tried tuning my
> coil running on LTR (I assume ltr is 1.5X resonant). basically
> performance was terrible. it tuned at about one turn and i was getting
> about 12" sparks and that's it (i'm running at 9/150). my res frequency
> is about 250KHZ. is there anything i can do or do i have to just give up
> the idea of running with the metlicka trigger gap? By the way, i just
> got my geek caps, and when i hooked them up at 15nf they worked great!
> my spark lenght increased by 50%! If you are thinking about going to
> mmc, definately go with geek caps. they didn't even get warm after ten
> minutes of run time!