Re: First Firing since 1999: The Glorious odor...

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Dave,
          I last spoke with Richard Quick about 2 years ago. Last I 
heard he was buried in computer management.

Regards,
malcolm


On 11 Aug 2002, at 23:04, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Dave Hartwick by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ddhartwick-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> 
> Guys,
> Circa 1999: The last coiling session. I was firing a 6" system running at
> ~140 kHZ. I have 8" and 10" secondaries--not enough room. 5kVA Piglet power
> with a bank of 8 HDPE salt-water caps--.025 ufd total. These caps were
> replaced with 2 Condenser Products 0.05 ufd, 20 kVAC units--600 clams worth.
> A minimal difference was noted switching to the commercial CP caps. I was
> getting about 50-60" spark with a vigorous air-blast gap. I guess I got
> discouraged and decided to call it a day for a while. I also decided to
> allow the dust to collect in 1993 when, in my ignorance, I blew 2 15/120
> NSTs.
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