Re: Letting out the magic smoke

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Original poster: "Shad Henderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>

Hi All, Mark!

   Heh :)  That's how I felt about my little 2x13" coil running consistant
37" arcs from a 9/60.  At ~2kva it burned up, mostly due to it running on
the pole-pig, and not having enough clearance between the inner primary turn
and bottom winding of the secondary. I wound mine with 32ga also, and got
the best performance with a 3x17" dryer duct topload.   I noticed your coil
was set pretty close to the floor, and you got some ground strikes from it.
I always ran mine on a table.

   Don't give up on the little coils, I went through a ton of 'em in my
"learning curve", mostly trying out little design quirks and whatnot to see
what would work and what wouldn't.  Plus when I wanted to try something new,
I figured it'd be quicker, less work, and less $$$ to try it with a small TC
system than a large one.

 Great pics!  What were the stats of that little bugger?


Shad

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Subject: Letting out the magic smoke


> Original poster: "Stolz, Mark by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mark.Stolz-at-st-systems-dot-com>
>
> Hi All!
>
> Well, I killed my first secondary.  Apparently my little 2.5" x 12"
> secondary didn't like being run with approx. 4kVA.  I guess the 32 AWG
wire
> just had to give out.  Here are some pictures just prior to its untimely
> death.
>
> http://users2.ev1-dot-net/~nmyreality/tesla/J010910/
>
> One thing that was interesting though was that while in its death throws
it
> was producing some amazing arcs.  We had measured strikes out to 39", but
> while it died I swear we had some out to 4'.  They say that a lightbulb
> burns brightest just prior to death and I guess the same holds true with
> secondaries.
>
> I reckon I should get my 8" coil finished now before I start going through
> arc withdrawl. :-)
>
> Mark Stolz
> Houston, TX
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