RE: ferrite mini coil

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Original poster: "Neil Richardson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <neil-at-opticalrealities-dot-com>

Well, same rule as always - Drive it with as much as you can get! If you
wanted you could attempt a mains powered one, it would be something cool to
try. Use it with a flash tube/strobe light instead of a spark gap. Mess
about with how many primary turns as it depends on the capacitor you use.
Select between 1 and 5 nF tho, I have mine running on 4.8nF, with 5 primary
turns, 200 secondary. Put more secondary turns than I did for better results
tho.

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Sent: 20 January 2002 04:59
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: ferrite mini coil


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


In a message dated 1/19/02 5:17:10 PM, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>It would be more difficult to do the math if you were using a Ferrite Rod,
>unless you knew exactly what type it was. Apart from that -- they defiantly
>improve performance. I used one in my mini coil, and the performance is
>awesome! I'd guess with a ferrite core, for the same performance, you can
>use a lot less than 1000 turns. Just use as many turns as you can get
still,
>just to be sure :)

Okay, but how many primary turns do I need and how much voltage should I
drive it with?