Re: Does anyone recognize this problem?

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Original poster: Liviu Vasiliu <teslina-at-yahoo-dot-com> 


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > 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
 >  >
 >
Get a look in the secondary form, maibe it has some
shorts inside.

teslina