Re: Mot coil troubles :(

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

What size is your tank capacitor? What are the specs
of your coil?

Greg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Tom Stathes by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <newphreak_16-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> 
> Hello all
> 
> I recently put togeather a twin MOT supply for my
> coil. (actualy, now im using a 4kv plate transformer
> with the 2 mots wired as a ballast) I decided uppon
> this system because it was too hard (expensive) to
> get
> a good cap for my OBIT bank. 
> 
> I thought that now all my problems were solved...
> However, my coil is more pathetic than ever.  While
> it
> looks nice, it dosent preform that well.  After i
> get
> it in tune i can only get 20in max discharge.  I
> tried
> a rotary gap, and got bad, almost no results.  Then
> i
> tried an airblast gap, worked a little better but
> still not great.  I think that the only problem is
> my
> spark gap, but i dont know how to design one that
> will
> work well at this voltage/power level.  If anyone
> could help me out i would be most thankfull.
> 
> --Tom 
>