TC Operation 2nd Question

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Original poster: "Emmett Secrest" <secrest2032-at-msn-dot-com> 

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Thanks to all who responded to my question about the RF ground. I got the 
ground installed and played with it some more. I was just way out on my tap 
point on the primary and was able to find the spot that gave me first light 
(13th turn).  Now I am really hooked. I was able to get 24" nice arcs from 
a nail attached to the side of the Toroid to a ground strike point. Some 
nice thick ones at that.  I added a box fan on the RQ gap and removed six 
of the twelve bottles from the bucket cap.  I have several ideas of things 
I need to do to improve performance and would like confirmation I am on the 
correct path.  I feel at this point that increasing the overall spark gap 
distance might improve performance. Also, I believe that once I get the MMC 
bank built and installed that it will perform much better than the 
saltwater cap I am now using.  The only other thing I can think of is I 
need to improve the coupling between the primary and secondary.  At present 
I have 2.5" between them with the flat primary hitting about 2" up from the 
bottom winding on the secondary.  I look forward to reading your 
suggestions for improving my first endeavor into Tesla coils and to seeing 
streamers without a nail for a breakout point.

Emmett