RE: Tesla coil grounding and other questions

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Original poster: "John F" <fuseboxr-at-hotmail-dot-com> 




you may also want to try the local electric motor repair shop




 >From: "Tesla list"
 >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >Subject: RE: Tesla coil grounding and other questions
 >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:04:04 -0700
 >
 >Original poster: "Luke"
 >
 >JC:
 >I looked around and found nothing in the way of wire locally as
 >well.
 >Unless I ordered through JCH wire and cable (local place here)  they
 >wanted a tone of cash for it.
 >
 >But I found the wire is pretty cheap at McMaster Carr
 >(McMaster-dot-com).
 >Go to their web site and in the search window type in "magnet wire"
 >then on the right side frame scroll to the bottom.
 >
 >I paid $16.36 for my 3000' spool of #26 wire.  Their online catalog
 >rocks!! IMO.
 >
 >Oh yeah I called before I ordered it thinking the shipping would be
 >high.  Turns out it would be about 5 bucks.  And I ordered other
 >stuff
 >with it.
 >
 >Hope that helps
 >
 >Luke Galyan
 >Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
 >
 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 >Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:11 AM
 >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >Subject: Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions
 >
 >Original poster: JOSEPH CACCIATORE
 >
 >
 >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
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >"Tesla list"
 >
 >02/16/2004 01:54 PM
 >To
 >tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >cc
 >Subject
 >Re: Tesla coil grounding and other questions
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >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/futu
 >ret/page3.html
 >
 >John
 >
 >