Re: Vortex Research - bust

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

Yup, Been slacking a bit lately.  I've the tank cap fixed now (more 
panasonics, so I should get 2 hours runtime out of it without much 
trouble).  Tonight I won't have to stay late at work for a change (4 14 
hour days in a row, I'm dyin over here!)  Never fails that when the 
coworkers "colonize" a new office, the desks never go where they were on 
the map so all but 2 of the computer drops need to be re-done >:/

  Anywho!  I'll try to drag the coil out either tonight, fri night, or over 
the weekend and get the pics.  Camera is fully charged, 64 meg smartmedia 
is empty, and life is goin' good for at least a little bit.

   On the GU10A's progress, - Almost all the GP03 bits are cut out and need 
only minor work, and I'll have the primary wound. I'm going to use the 
polepig for a plate tranny, run into a FW rectifier with the negative 
shorted to ground.  Debated on it a long time, as I'll have to still 
ballast the pig (that whole 2000+A it'll pull on it's own thing...), but it 
should work.  Now we'll find out how well diodes in parallel like 60hz AC 
on 'em ;)
   The filament tranny will require a bit of work later on, I'm just going 
to put a new primary on the one I'm using for the Quad 833 coil.  Once the 
GU10A is running, I'm chopping the Quad 833 back to a Dual 833 and donating 
the 2 extra tubes to 2 buddies that'll put 'em to good use. Doing my part 
to Spead the Tube Coil Joy.
   The home-made flat cap first prototype failed miserably, the etchant 
didn't get all the copper off of it that it should have, and under 
high-volt test it flashed around the side of the cap at 8kV.  I left 1/2" 
space all around with rounded corners. BUT!  The PCB didn't puncture even 
at 8kv, so I should be all set for the GU10A's tank cap.  I figure, "Let it 
get hot and burn, it's cheap enough to make".  Submerging it in oil 
probably won't help, but I'll consider it if all else fails. It'll be more 
for cooling than dielectric.

    So much to do, so few weekends...

Shad G2-1203


At 10:36 PM 3/27/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
>Hi Shad,
>
>Hey!, some of us were really looking forward to seeing the "results" from
>this experiment of yours! ;-))  So, your batteries are dead, the coil is
>blown up, and the house is burnt down.. ;-))  Just minor problemos!!  ;-))
>If "I" can do anything to help this to get going again (I got them caps
>;-)) let me know...  Seems like a lot of great and interesting things are
>coming up these days that we don't have the "bandwidth" to figure out...
>Gary's saturating coil (that's a BIG one!!), John's jittering spark gaps,
>spiral arcs...  Many questions that we have to investigate...
>
>Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
>
>
>At 01:27 PM 3/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi All.
> >
> >         Well, good news and bad news.  The good news is that I had
> >everything together for the experiments, ready to go.  The bad news is that
> >the batteries in my camera were dead, and while I was playing with the quad
> >833 waiting for them to charge, my tank cap bit the big one.
> >
> >  No need to panic, it was a quiet death (literally), the VTTC just drifted
> >out of tune and the caps got extremely hot. I already know the cause of
> >death was overcurrent, and I'm working on replacing the tank cap with
> >something a bit more robust.
> >
> >  So Stay Tuned, I'm workin' on it!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Shad (Sundog)
> >G-2 #1203
> >"Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
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> >

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Shad (Sundog)
G-2 #1203
"Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"
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