Re: A laser pointer killed my coil?

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Original poster: "c d by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <vbprg1-at-hotmail-dot-com>

I actually replaced the transformers with 2 new ones
and have not been able to get similar performance
with arrangments of new new or new old ect..
Each of the 8 legs on the 4 transformers drops a spark into the
grounded caseing from a similar distance.
Thats about the extent of my testing.
Unless you count hooking the Jacobs ladder up to random
arrangements of the 4x 12000v30ma neons, which worked fine.
Anyway I wraped 2 coils to set up a 1/2 wave system. Either one will work 
to test the original against.

I kinda thought the same thing as Matt untill I got new transformers.
Chris


>        More likely, it was the human reaction to the laser that caused 
> the problem. It's possible that the immediate shut-down created a voltage 
> backlash from the collapsing magnetic field in the transformer(s) and 
> partially cooked/zapped something. When you say you checked the 
> transformers, did you check the performance curves against the originals, 
> and the transformers against each other?

>Matt D.