Re: Sparking off the secondary problem

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Original poster: Paul Nicholson <paul-at-abelian.demon.co.uk> 

Sean wrote:

 > instead of working normally, it shot sparks 2/3 of the
 > way up the secondary

 > I turned it off, checked the connection between secondary
 > and toroid,

Also check secondary to ground connection, and make sure that
none of your primary cap strings have gone open circuit.

Both these could cause the TC to operate in quite the wrong
resonant mode.
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Paul Nicholson
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