Re: Light bulb not lighting?

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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 Adam,

I'm running the same power with my 6" coil, and can light em up at 20'.  You
may want to try another tube.  That one may have lost it's vacuum.

David E Weiss

 > Original poster: "Adam Britt by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<beans45601-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
 >
 > With my old (smaller) tesla coil, i could light a flouresent (spelling?)
 > tube from about 3 feet away with no streamers arcing to it. But, with my
 > new tesla coil (12/120 NST's), the streamers have to be actually hitting
 > the light bulb (which hurts, so i stopped, obviously). I am thinking it is
 > a tuning problem? how can i fix this? I would like to be able to
 > demonstrate this for classes/shows/ect...
 > Thanks
 > Adam   KD5WIT
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