Re: Does anyone recognize this problem?

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Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca> 


At 09:22 AM 27/11/03 -0700, you wrote:

 >Original poster: "Robert Hanford" <pomnept-at-comcast-dot-net>
 >
 >Hello list,
 >It's a while since I've posted since I haven't been screwing up as much
 >lately! ;^) I just made a new toroid, a larger one, for my six inch coil.
 >At the first try it worked extremely well, with nice big rolling
streamers. >After a brief interval I tried it again but this time it mostly
just hit
 >the strike rail then started to bombard the secondary with hits a short
 >way down and near the bottom.  Raising the toroid and secondary seemed
 >to make little difference in the short time I had.
 >
 >Later on I tried to retune the coil at 30% power- spark gap was firing,
 >I used a breakout point, but no thirty % sparks!!!  Just absolutely
 >nothing except my fluorescents were glowing.
 >Best regards from MN,
 >Robert Hanford
 >

Hello Robert, Coilers,

I'm going to assume that you retuned the TC after changing over to the
new larger toroid, which would lower your coil's operating frequency.
It may also have so much capacity that your coil can't break out at a
lower power setting compared to before with the smaller toroid.
How much bigger is the new toroid than the original?

73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL

Details of my "Hyperbaric Gap" and Tesla coil are at:
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