Re: High midnight at the Texas corral

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 12:30 04/04/03 -0700, you wrote:


>But would it not be more interesting if you would post the complete
>specs of your magnifier to see, if your results are reproduceable
>elsewhere?

I second that, and let's see some photographs of the 12 foot sparks too! 
Anyway, like another poster said, it's easy to get big sparks out a small 
tank cap, you just charge it to a stupidly high voltage, very fast. FWIW, I 
get 30" with a 0.0094uF cap (at 20kV and 500bps rep rate) on my ordinary 
2-coil system. It uses a tiny RSG spinning at 15000 rpm. I guess I could 
convert it into a maggie and see if the sparks got bigger...

Steve C.