Re: Magnifier conversion

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

Hi All,

My Magnifier conversion is getting close to being done.  Today I was 
testing the L2, C2 system:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0426-01.jpg

I predicted the C2 would need to be 164pF.  But with the Cself of L2, the 
wire from L2 to L3 and the corona rings, I predicted that the real C2 
capacitor would have to be 134pF to tune this part of the system to 
160.0kHz.  As it turned out C2 actually had to be adjusted 133.5pF ;-)))  I 
guess I am getting pretty good at this stuff after all these years :o)  But 
really, the computer models predict things almost better than I can measure 
now.  C2 just has a wire to remove bottom caps from the stack as needed:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0426-02.jpg

for corona rings, I just bent 5/8 copper tubing on a circle and it holds to 
the frames well with friction.  I used copper tape to make the connections:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/NewMag/0426-03.jpg

So all is going very well and the actual hardware is performing as 
predicted and designed perfectly.  I can't say enough how nice that 
is!!  Doing these things by trail and error is a pain!!

Tonight I hope to get the rest put together and do some signal generator 
testing were the signal generator is programmed with a simulated primary 
signal.  That should confirm the rest of the tuning and all.

Then tomorrow, it will all go to the Denver High Voltage Meeting for first 
light.

Cheers,

	Terry