Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions

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Original poster: "Richard Modistach" <hambone-at-dodo-dot-com.au> 

this 8G wire they got would be fine just so long
as it is copper and not steel.

regards
richard
aus.


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Subject: Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions


 > Original poster: JOSEPH CACCIATORE <jocatch-at-us.ibm-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > John, checked out your design. Looks really good and easy to build. I have
 > one question, however. And it is a generic question too. For a 12kv, 30
ma,
 > 60 hz NST, the capacitor works out to be .0066uf. Yet you and alot of
other
 > designs use much bigger caps. How can you still tune? With the program I
am
 > using for design, changing the cap from .006 to something larger meshes up
 > all the parameters making it impossible for me to still use a 4" diameter
 > secondary with a 5:1 aspect and still tune it. Maybe I need to play with
 > the numbers some more...
 >
 > I did go to Home Depot and Lowes and I must say I am very disappointed
with
 > their wire selection. I wanted to get some 10 gauge solid wire to emulate
 > what you did and they had none. All I was able to get was 8 gauge bare,
 > solid wire. Not a problem really. But no one had any wire smaller than 18
 > gauge, no 22, 24, 26, 28, no nothing. So I need to look around the area
 > some more. I did pick up a long 12' PVC drainage pipe for about $5. That
 > wasn't bad. I also picked up 2 end caps for 94 cents for the pvc so I can
 > make a rig to spill it when I do wind the wire on it.
 >
 > JC
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 > 02/16/2004 01:54 PM
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 > Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions
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 > Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
 >
 > In a message dated 2/15/04 8:29:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
 > tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
 >
 >  >As you may have gathered from my other post I plan to start from scratch
 >  >and build a 4 or 4.25" secondary coil using my 12kv NST. Looks like I
will
 >  >buy some MMC caps on ebay if I can find them or from the Geek site.
 >
 >
 > JC,
 >
 > You may want to check out my TT-42 type coil at my website
 > which uses a 12/30 NST and a 4.25" dia secondary and gives
 > 42" sparks.   There's a link there to John Morawa's TC which is
 > prettier than mine I must say, and it uses 1/4" tubing on the primary.
 >
 >
<http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html>http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/
page3.html
 >
 > John
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