RE: Tesla coil grounding and other questions

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


Your coil winder looks like professional quality, industrial strength! Very 
nice.

On the other hand my coil winder was made from the base of my wife's quilt 
holder! Real low tech. There is a picture on my web site of it:

http://www.joecool-dot-org/joes_tesla_coil.htm

JC



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

Very cool.

You are almost at the same point I am at now.
I have my secondary, corona ring and protection circuit finished.  I am
waiting on my caps as well.  I am working on a new idea for a spark gap
right now so I have slowed up a little while working that out.

I have my web page up finally.  At the moment there are only a few pics
of what I have built so far, a quick and dirty write up on my coil
winder and some information on 3 of my Treks but I will be adding to it
every now and then.  The hit counter is stuck at 1 but the rest works
ok.

So if any one wants to check it out...................
The link to it is under my name in the signature at the bottom.

Luke Galyan
Bluu-at-cox-dot-net
http://members.cox-dot-net/bluu

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


Luke, just wanted to let you know I got the wire today from McMaster!
Boy
are they super fast! I just ordered it the day before yesterday and it
came
today, 1/2 pound of #28 magnet wire. And they only charged like $3 for
UPS.
I am very happy with them.

So tonight I spent 3 hours cutting the PVC pipe and winding the
secondary.
Tomorrow I just have to seal it and add the high voltage standoff. Then
I'll be waiting for the caps to arrive shortly.

Joe C.



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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