power upgrade related question

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Original poster: "Christoph Bohr by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <cb-at-luebke-lands.de>

Hello fellow coilers!

I am going to upgrade my 5" maggie from 30nF to 60 or 90 nF primary 
capacitance in order to take advance of the higher current my new 6MOT 
supply can deliver.
But with higher power levels I expect new problems to come up. As I don't 
want to blow up anything ( espacially myself ;-) I have some questions:

1.: How bad will it be if a streamer hits the transmission line from the 
tranny to the coil? Will a properly set safety gap give sufficient protection?

2.: How bad is a hit to the secondary to resonator connection? Will this or 
the above endanger my caps? ( I have safety gaps on the caps, too. )

3.: the estimated primary turns will be around 4 turns instead of the 
currently used 7 turns. Is this bad in reference to power transfer? Should 
I add top capacitance in order to use more primary turns for a better power 
througput?

4.: with the currently used 30nF/35KV maxwell caps everything seems to work 
pretty stable and safe. If I move to 90nF,  will this increase the voltage 
seen by the caps during oscillations so that 35KV will become insufficient 
with my 12KV RMS supply?

any suggestions are welcome.

sincerely

Christoph Bohr