Re: Does anyone recognize this problem?

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 


Try a scrap wire primary to find your new tuning point.  It may take more
turns than you have available on your copper tubing primary.  Just use an
alligator clip on some 12 AWG and extend it out to approx 25 turns -- hold
it in place with pieces of scrap cardboard with slots cut into them.  Hot
glue the wire on as you go around.

Excessive strikes to the primary can damage the caps.

Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corporation
E11870 Shadylane Rd.
Baraboo   WI   53913

 >  >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