Re: Tesla Coil Shunts??(repost)

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Original poster: "Finn Hammer by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <f-h-at-c.dk>

Chris,

You know- it could be.

Why don`t you pull them out and let us know if there is any difference?

Cheers, Finn Hammer

Tesla list skriver:
 >
 > Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz 
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi Again,
 >
 > I posted something like this a while ago, but never got an answer. Sorry to
 > bug you guys again.("Oh great, It's that guy who can't build a tesla coil
 > right. Why dosen't he ever get a clue and stop trying"? =P) We wound our
 > primary coil in a bit of an oddball way. We had a bunch of 1/4" coaxial
 > cable straps laying around. These things are little plastic arches with a
 > 1/2" nail in one side. You stick the cable underneath the arch and pound
 > the nail into whatever you want to hold the cable to. We found that the
 > distance between two of these was the perfect spacing for our windings, so
 > we wound the primary around these things and nailed them in. It dosen't arc
 > between them, but there are about 110 of these nails in the spacings
 > between the windings of the primary. So could these be the culprit of why
 > my coil still puts out sub-par sparks? I keep thinking they might be acting
 > like shunts in an NST but I'm not sure.  Anyone have any idea? Thanks again.
 >
 > -Chris
 >
 > "Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all
 > of them yourself."-unknown