Re: Power level Vs Coil hieght

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Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 2/15/04 11:01:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Luke,

It will work fine.  It just may need a looser coupling to prevent
racing sparks.  Also, if you keep the spark gap spacing the
same (static gap), the breakrate will rise, and the sparks will
get longer, but the racing sparks won't appear.

John



>I have my secondary wound and it is 6.315" dia and 27" tall with 1500 turns
>of 26 AWG wire.
>I was going to use 15KV 60ma NST.  But the evil side kicked in and said
>MORE!!!!!!!!
>What are some opinions on how bad it would push this coil if I bumped up to
>15KV 90ma?
>
>Seems to me it is boarder line.  The sensible side says don't push it and
>it will last longer.
>The other side of me says go ahead bump it up.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Luke Galyan
>Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
>
>