Re: Flat Spiral Pancake & Multilayer Secondary Coils (fwd)

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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 2/19/02 10:42:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Steve,

I too was thinking that this may be the explanation.  The sparks
from a magnifier secondary to ground are ferocious, current-wise.

Cheers,
John


>
> Coilers,
>
> A question regarding Jeff's interesting forwarded post.  (I don't think Jeff
> is on the list anymore, is he?)  I speculate that the short, fat secondary
> arcs may not be anything special or the result of higher efficiencies.  His
> smaller 4" coil was perhaps the equivalent of a helical TC secondary with
> only one or two hundred turns?  Would not such a TC produce similar shorter
> but fatter secondary arcs?  For those who have magnifiers - what sort of
> arcs to ground can you get from your driver secondary (bottom of extra
> coil)?
> --Steve