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Re: Terry and Jerry's Tesla Show

Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Perhaps it has something to do with capacitive coupling to ground and the
material which is underneath the primary(wood, phenolic, acrylic, etc.) has
something to do with it. A fairly poor dielectric material would cause less
"loss" due to capacitive coupling perhaps?

Eric
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Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Terry and Jerry's Tesla Show


> Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have noticed that with some of the coils that I built also.  When I did
a
> few of my Frankenstien productions the stage raised the coil an extra 3-4
> feet off the concrete floor.  The coils always seemed to work better there
> than at home where the coil was only 1-2 feet off the floor.  But I have
> also seen coils perform well when the primary is only 6" off the floor, so
> it may be a fine tunning issue.
>
> David E Weiss
>
>  > Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > At 05:08 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
>  > >Nice pix! the coil in the middle-the primary is awfuly close to the
> floor?
>  > >might be a problem. see you all next year,brian f.
>  > >.......>
>  > > > http://hot-streamer.com/temp/Terry%2BJerryDemo.JPG
>  > > >
>  > ......
>  >
>  > Good point!!  Maybe that is why it was working so poorly!
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  >          Terry
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>


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