Re: First light for the 3500 pound CLONE!

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

In a message dated 11/11/02 6:22:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


>After working out the usual bugs during any first light situation, Like
>Kevin Eldridge lighting my rotary on fire!
>We had a very much awaited first batch of hot power arcs erupt from the top
>load., We stop the coil and retap the primary at turn 8.5, Reset the
>primary tank incomming voltage to 165 volts to the pigs, And drive in a few
>more turns of inductance with the variac stack, And throw the switch!
>OMG!!! Keep in mind now, we are on the floor of the building about 15 to 17
>feet from this thing and now it is power arcing to the door, to the
>cieling, and at random was jumping to the long red colored metal support
>"I" beams, which are 15 feet from the coils wrath. The arcs are real hot,
>almost a white to blue white color.Suddenly there is a real strange sound,
>it's eating the 8 foot flourescent lamp fixture just above it. As one of
>the tubes ruptures raining down glass.  I look up from hiding behind a
>power controller and see the white hot power arcing now just roasting the
>lamp fixtures newly exposed sockets! Thats it , it's going down the power
>lines now, I am thinking.You will notice in the pics that we chicken wired
>the lamp afterwards, but still haven't gotten the lamp bits from atop the
>torroid. All of a sudden the breaker trips at 100 amps for now! Whew, what
>a great run....Lets re-group and get some pics of this thing..
>Primary trensformer is (2) 14,400 single bushing pigs wired parallel,
>series ,out of phase. Trans ratio is 130 to 1.
>165 vac to tank equals  21450vac to tank, Wonder what will happen when we
>turn the trans primary incomming volts to 300?
>Oh well not in this building.
>Caps are sangamo, .185uf at 60kv each. Yes the big ones, the quarter
>crushers. Total measured cap is .188, we are running 10 of them in series,
>They work just fantastic, If anyone was ever wondering.
>Spark gap is syncronous, 120bps, 3600 rpm, 14 inch g-10 disk.....
>Inductor is motorized stack of Stacco series 6000 auto transformers, Using
>the first 7 of them wired in parallel from the top down.............


Very impressive bolts of lightning!  Care to describe your toroid?

Ed Sonderman