Re: Neighbors and noise

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Original poster: "cd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <vbprg1-at-hotmail-dot-com>

I use a sucker gap
that essentially sounds like a unhoused vacuum cleaner motor
kinda like a underpowered jet motor whine

The streamers are definitely louder.....
While watching the big coil movie I was happy to note
that near the end the music was stopped and
the sound of the coil was allowed to
shine through.....mine sounds just like that big one :)

an electric Hum unparalleled
Chris


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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: Neighbors and noise


> Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> Hi John, Chris,
>
> Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>
> > I would think the arc streamers themselves would be much louder
> > than the spark gap.  That's been the case for my coils, and others
> > I've seen (and heard).
>
> On my first coil, the gap was definately louder than the sparks. I think
> they were
> about 3 feet and mostly purple/blue in color. As I eventually learned to
> tune in
> the coil correctly, upgrade the sparkgap (several times), upgrade
ballasting
> components, and all those tid-bits that go into optimizing the system, at
some
> point the sparks became louder and longer until they eventually were
> drowning out
> the gap (other than a steady background buzz) and the sparks turned bright
> white a
> little over 3 x the original length. It just goes to show how poorly that
first
> coil was running due to my inexperience.
>
> I just thought I'd throw that in there incase others assume their coils
are
> running
> fine and the gap is suppose to be louder than the sparks.
>
> Take care,
> Bart
>