Re: Light bulb not lighting?

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Original poster: "tmoore by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tmoorezz-at-adelphia-dot-net>

Hi Adam,

     Yea it dose sound like your tesla coil is out of tune. I can help you to
find were your primary coil needs to be taped in order to tune it to the
proper resonance frequency. But I need some info on your tesla coil, such as
specifications on topload, secondary coil, primary coil, tank cap, spark gap
and your HV power supply the more specific the better. Also it is never safe
to touch the output from a tesla coil, they will cause deep RF tissue burns,
and one other reason is that possibly depending on how you wired your tank
supply and or if a streamer connects to you and at the same time the primary
coil it may send deadly HV currents from your transformers and tank
capacitor along the streamer fatally injuring you. Safe Coiling!!!!

Nolan Moore


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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: Light bulb not lighting?


 > 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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