6" Autopsy

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>

Hi All,

Got a chance to autopsy my 6" coil.  All of the main components are 
fine.  What shut the coil down was a breakdown of the canvas phenolic board 
that I mounted the components on.  6000V RMS tunneled it's way thru 3" of 
the phenolic, leading me to believe that the phenolic is hydroscopic.  This 
was probably the reason that I was getting shorter streamers than usual.  I 
am going to route two 1/2" slots, one each, between the filter resistor 
feedthru and the filter cap.  That should make the voltage take the long 
way home.

David E Weiss