Re: First light with pig power

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Original poster: "Daniel McCauley by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>



Try using some large corona balls when building the safety gap.  You can get
up to 5" balls with any size thread to put on the end of a bolt.  Ross
Engineering makes these as well as spun aluminum toroids.

If you're interested, i'll even sell you some 2" corona balls i have (have
1/4" coarse thread)

Dan




> Hello Coilers,
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> I'm a few days away from first light with my new 14.4 KV, 10 KVA pig,
> but I have been running some tests with it on a Jacob's ladder to get
> the feel for it.  Based on what I've seen so far, it appears that my
> present "acorn nut" safety gaps will have to go, as the arc won't go
> out once struck.  Do those of you running pig powered coils just not
> run safety gaps anymore, or do you use a horn gap arrangement?
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> 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
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