Re: 7.5 or 5.0kv

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Original poster: "Paul Marshall by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <klugmann-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Personally I'd go with the 7.5



Paul S. Marshall





>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: 7.5 or 5.0kv
>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:08:13 -0600
>
>Original poster: "John Richardson by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jprich-at-up-dot-net>
>
>Hello,
>
>Attempt number two on the toroid went better.  Still rather homely, but 
>everything is relative.
>
>I have another question for you guys:  Over the weekend I wound a 
>secondary out of #32 heavy build, 13" of windings, on 2" PVC pipe.  I want 
>to keep this small, so I plan to mount the whole pri/sec assembly on one 
>of these 12" fiberboard circles that Home Depot sells for about two 
>bucks.  The toroid is the previously mentioned disaster with measurements 
>about 9 by 3 1/2.  I've collected a wide variety of transformers over 
>time, and was hoping to use a 5kv/20ma ignition transformer that I robbed 
>out of a small space heater.  Would this be acceptable, or would I be 
>better off with one of the 7.5/30s?  I have looked thru the archives and 
>tried to search the Tesla Ring (hard to find anything using keywords on 
>the Webring), and haven't come up with anything definitive.  This is my 
>first coil since I was a kid (Model T coil driven; didn't work so well), 
>and I would like to avoid screwing it up right off.  Looking for a few 
>thoughts given the secondary size.
>
>Thanks,
>John Richardson