Re: new little coil

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

Dude,

I don't know much about this stuff yet,

But I looked at your pics, and I though I saw that you are using a piece of
PVC or something to wind the primary coil around.

If this is the case, I think that doing that would drastically reduce the
amount of electricity being conducted to the primary??

I may be wrong though....just a suggestion

See ya later,
Jaime Banse


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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: new little coil


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Fucian-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> In a message dated 2/13/02 9:57:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> << Hello everyone....
>
>  This is my first posting here, but I have been reading this list for a
few
>  months now.
>
>  I recently finished building a new coil, and took a couple of pics of my
>  makeshift setup to share with everyone! heres the link:
>
>  http://www.85merk-dot-com/members/daves/tssm.jpg
>
>  Its powered by a 12/30 NST, a single static gap, and three wine bottle
>  capacitors.
>  the secondary is 1.5" x 12" tall, the primary is 15 turns of 12 gauge
solid
>  wire.
>
>  so far my sparks have been a healthy 6-7".
>
>  It is weird though, this little coil only seem to run good with that tiny
>  solid cast iron ball on top (or nothing at all). As soon as I add a
bigger
>  topload (copper toilet bowl float) my sparks almost completely vanish,
even
>  with much tuning of the cap, gap, and primary..???
>
>  Any input would be great!! (besides my obvious saftey issues, as they
have
>  mostly been taken care of with the addition of neon sign wire)
>
>  thanks, dave schultheis
>
>   >>
> About the topload deal, my SSTC does the same thing.Someone told me it
could
> be that our cols have a certain ideal total capacitance.And we are
overdoing
> it.
>
> Matt
>
>
>