Re: Big Coil, small transformer Blues....

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Original poster: "Carlo Latasa by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <carlo23-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Wow,

What a difference a couple (2 to be exact ) of turns on you primary can
make. Gotta love those high
Q systems! Anyway, now I'm getting 4-5 ft discharges off the top and that's
without my toroid. Can't
wait for more power.

Cheers.

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Carlo Latasa by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <carlo23-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> So,
>
> my pole pig is on it's way and life for my coil should be good. It's a
> 15.5'' x 50" secondary with 537 turns and a .09uF / ~5 turn primary. The
> thing is that I've tried to run it with a 15Kv 150ma NST and was shocked
> at how wimpy the sparks that came out of it were.Considering that the
> reactance of a .09uF cap at 60 Hz is around 30kohms which demands about
> .5 A from my transformer, I'm not surprized that it's under powered. But
> we are talking only one foot sparks. Could it be that I'm way off my
> resonant frequency or is this common behaviour for an underpowered
> coil.  Has anyone ever tried this?
>
> Carlo-