Re: First light...Mixed Emotions

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Original poster: "J Dow by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jdowphotography-at-hotmail-dot-com>





The sparks along the sec coil are called "Racing Sparks" and they are 
caused by over coupling. You pir coil is too close to you sec coil. This is 
not the end of the world.  If your pri coil is an inverse cone, "platter 
coil" or if it's a flat one, you're sitting pretty. Just raze the sec coil 
and the problem goes away. I don't think you will need to raze it far just 
and inch or 3. If to have a platter coil, flatten it till the bad bad 
beasties go away.
	I designed all my pri-sec coil setups to be adjustable except this one 
time. I got nasty sparks all over my coil and had to make major 
adjustments. I made a pri coil once that essentially had no inner diameter, 
just 1.5" I think. The sec coil was on a rod that came through the pri coil 
(3.5") and was threaded up or down as needed. It was one of my best.
Good luck
Read you later
Josh