Re: Transformerless Tesla coil

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

In a message dated 8/2/02 1:13:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Jason, all,

I tried Dr Resonance's method on a tube coil, and it gave
about a 10% spark length improvement, as he predicted.

Cheers,
John


>
> This post reminded me of something posted a few years back by Dr
> Resonance on a magnifier thread. We were talking about the operation of
> magnifiers when someone came up with the idea of eliminating the driver
> coil, and thus the worries of flashover there and other problems with
> the primary etc. He said that they had done this before by taking a
> normal disruptive coil with two coils tuning it and then removing the
> secondary coil to a remote location and connecting the base of the
> secondary coil to another tap on the primary right by the first tuning
> tap with some heavy gauge wire, such as welding cable. I never did try
> it at the time, but now that I have thought of it again, I may have to
> give it a go next time I run my coil. The only problem I see with this
> is that if you got hold of the streamers you would be connected directly
> to the tank circuit, but then again you shouldn't get hold of the
> streamers anyway.
>
>
> << Jason R. Johnson >>