Re: Differences between "bad" streamers and "good" streamers

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Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun.COM>

Zaragus,
         I notice you used MOTs for power, if you still have the MO's you
can pull the fans from them and use one to quench your gap. I did this
and got great results. I used a squirel-cage-like fan, rather than the
propeller-like fan (I had several to choose from).

The other thing is from your pictures the torroid looks like it could be
larger, your diameter looks like about 1/2 the coil height, I'ld go for
2/3 or 3/4.

Like someone else already said, 36" is pretty darn good...

-Peter Lawrence.


 >Original poster: "Zagarus Rashkae by way of Terry Fritz
 ><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <arbitrarily_random-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >Hi All,
 >
 >I have recently built a Tesla coil and fired it up. At
 >best, it produced thin, wimpy, purple 36 inch
 >streamers at first light Specs can be found at
 >http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/lulabs/Tesla.html
 >The power input is maybe 1.5-2.5 kW. I haven't
 >measured it yet.
 >Spark images are at
 >http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/lulabs/images/sparks/
 >I don't know what is causing these sparks to be so
 >thin and purple. I have also noticed that sparks don't
 >break out easily without a breakout point. Is it
 >because I haven't tuned the coil right? Is it the
 >toroid? Is it the ground? Is it the capacitor? Input
 >power? Please help.
 >
 >_
 >