Re: Pig power...WOW!!

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/20/02 12:14:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


Hi Weazle,

Yes, you have been hopelessly bitten by the "pig bug" :-) I had the same
experience when I first went to "pig power". The sparks are absolutely 
awesome aren't they? NST and OBIT systems are nice for a beginner
but the pig is definitely in a class all by itself, IMHO. Of course some
coilers are claiming pig-like performance from multi-MOT tranny systems
but I'll still stand by my pig ;-) Glad to hear of your pig success and you
should be able to work up to 10 ft.+ spark length once you get it all
bugs out of it and can run it at the full 260 volt input. The rotory gap 
that you're working on will go a long ways to improve your spark length
and run times without loss of SG quench.

Coilin' in Memphis,
David Rieben
<< Hello Coilers,
 
 I had first light with my coil under pig power today and was impressed
 by the enhanced performance.  I knew sort of what to expect, but still
 it sure was a surprise to see how thick the streamers were.  There is
 no doubt a lot more current in them and the noise was bad enough that
 I should have put my ear defenders on, but it sounded SO GOOD!!!
 
 I need to get more air moving through the Vortex Gap, as after about a
 thirty second run the electrodes heat up and the quenching goes all to
 heck, but that's easy to fix.  I've an async rotory under contruction 
 already which should really let me crank up the variac and let'er howl.
 I've only had it up to about 170 Volts and I can go to 260, so it will
 be impressive when I can do it, as I'm getting four-footers now!!
 
 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
 G-1#1214 >>