Re: FIRST LIGHT

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

What is your wind spacing ? You may be able to insulate the coil area with
hot-glue or silicon RTV rubber.You may not be well tuned or have sharp edges
on your coil tap connection.
  Robert  H 

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:53:49 -0600
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> Subject: FIRST LIGHT
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> Original poster: "Vince D'Amore by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <tesla-at-teslafx-dot-com>
> 
> Hello all
> 
> Well I finally did it. Tonight I fired up my 4inch coil for the first time.
> I'm running dual 12/30 nst's with a RQSG and my Geek group MMC.
> I tapped into my 14 turn 1/4 inch flat copper primary at the 7th turn.
> First run was at turn 14 which did not produce any results.
> I have a question however. I noticed that sparks were jumping on my primary
> between the tap and the two surrounding turns. Can anyone shed some light
> on this?
> 
> Vince
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