Re: New Coil/RSG Annoyance

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

In a message dated 4/17/02 5:22:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> Specs:
>
> Secondary- 40mH, 19" tall with about 1300 turns of 28 AWG
> Toroid- 22pF 6" by 20"
> Primary- Flat spiral 3.125 ID, 0.5" C-C spacing, tapped at turn 7 (best
> spark).
> Sparkgap- Single vacuum gap (would use rotary, if I could get it to fire
> right)
> Cap- 0.075 uF polyester dielectric (lossy I know, but it's all I have
> right now).
> Coupling- ??? (Not high enough for racing sparks, though).
>
> Thanks,
> Winston



Winston,

What rpm motor are you using, what is the H.P. rating, what size is the rotor,
how many electrodes on the rotor, how many stationary electrodes?  Are you sure
is locks into the line frequency and is synchronous?

Ed Sonderman