RE: Tesla coil grounding and other questions

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Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net> 


Before I knew the GeekGroup would sell the caps I had already ordered
mine from a local electronics supply place.  Las Vegas = local for me.
Kiesub electronics.  But you might find an electronics parts place near
you to order them from.  I just gave them the part number of the
geekgroup cap and they ordered them for me.  But sadly it has been about
a month and I am still waiting.  So don't think it is a big help but
just letting you know you can order them from other places.

Glad you got your wire on the way!  They usually ship pretty quick and
the product is on your doorstep when you get home from work a few days
later.

Luke Galyan
Bluu-at-cox-dot-net

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Original poster: JOSEPH CACCIATORE <jocatch-at-us.ibm-dot-com>


Great Luke. I went to that site and they had some of the best prices and

since YOU said they were good, 8-), I ordered a 2000' spool of #28 wire.

Ships tomorrow I hope.

Last problem I have is finding some caps. Geek is out until next month
and
there is nothing on Ebay. I need to find another place to get some
polyester caps. Sounds like pants, uh? 8-)

JC



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Original poster: "Luke" <Bluu-at-cox-dot-net>

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

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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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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/futu
ret/page3.html

John