Re: New Toroid

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Shaun,

Adding more C is also tuning your coil (just like adding turns). You may
even want to add one or two
more to see if it gets better or worse. In the mean time, keep your eyes
open for some caps to build an
MMC.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Shaun R. Phelps by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <shaun-at-visorloop-dot-com>
>
> Thanks for the advice everyone!  I tried the off-axis inductor but don't
> seem to get much of a difference with or without it.  I suspect that the
> coil is already somewhat in tune.  I did, however, add another wine-bottle
> capacitor and this has added another few inches to the spark.
> Unfortunately, I'm still being forced to use a break-out point (little piece
> of copper wire from the toroid) to get a spark.  The current length is about
> 12" - that's certainly better than the 4" or so I had before adding the
> extra capacitance.  I'm pretty sure that if I were to add a bit more
> capacitance that I could remove that break-out point from the toroid.
>
> On another note, I have a pile of MOT's and a few other NST's - would adding
> more current to the input give me a 'hotter' spark?  Unfortunately, a nice
> MMC is a bit out of my price range so I will have to stick with the
> beer/wine bottle caps for the time being.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Shaun.