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RE: First Pics of my First Tesla Coil



Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>



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	Thanks for the compliment.  As one already said on this group, "if
it works as good as it looks . . . heh heh."
	Anyways, i'll keep you posted.  Probably will be a week or two
before i fire it up.  Still waiting on some PFC caps for the NST, need to
finish and test the NST filter, and need to build the spark gap and get my
emi filters.

	Dan

> Wow,
> 
> You dont mess around the first time!!  I think that you will like those 
> caps, i use a similar bank of yellow GE caps with my coil.  Its the coil 
> that started the "Cure for racing sparks" topic to go around.  The caps
> are 
> great, my 2 strings NEVER even get warm.  I really like them and they seem
> 
> to take a lot of abuse.  Wow your gonna have a nice coil.  It makes me
> want 
> to go out and make myself a real good lookin primary and base like that.
> Im 
> sure you will let us know when you are all done.  Good luck, and if i can 
> get 30" with a 550w supply, you should be getting those big sparks that
> you 
> arent "supposed" to have in that town house :)
> 
> Steve Ward,
> 
> PS exellent solid state work too, even though i know nothing about SSTCs.
> 
> 
> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: First Pics of my First Tesla Coil
> >Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:42:37 -0600
> >
> >Original poster: "Daniel McCauley by way of Terry Fritz 
> ><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
> >
> >Just wanted to thank everyone for their help so far.  My very first
> >conventional tesla coil is on its way.  You can see some of the
> >pictures of this coil in progress at:
> >
> >http://www.spacecatlighting-dot-com/teslacoil3.htm
> >
> >Thanks again!
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >
>