Re: Magnifier conversion

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi All,

Busy day ;-)

I got my new 6 x 26 inch toroid done.  Just a 6 x 8foot duct taped to a 16 
inch pizza pan with aluminum duct tape.  But it fits the bill perfectly.  I 
also made a raised base and all for the extra coil.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0413-10.jpg

Looks pretty good ;-)

I milled a nice disk to mount the extra coil to the base tube out of 3/8 
Lexan so it is stable.  It still needs a corona ring.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0413-11.jpg

It is nice to now have the ability to mill these goofy parts ;-))  These 
little Sherline machines do very well and they are easily small enough to 
use on a desk indoors (shop vac not shown ;-)).  I find I use it all the 
time so it was well worth the cost.  It could easily mill an 8 inch rotor 
(probably a 12 inch if a thought about it) and just about anything smaller.

I tested the new extra coil outside and got 184kHz.  So with L3 = 22.1mH we 
get 33.8pF for C3.  I had the base wire laying on the ground and such so 
that may have affected things?  Not sure...  Have to recheck :-p

So really all the conversion needs now is the new primary, secondary, and 
C2 capacitor.

Cheers,

	Terry