Re: Aluminum tape on toroids? What about the sticky side being nonconducting?

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren1-at-iinet-dot-net.au> 

The adhesive on the aluminium tape may not affect spark length but is
visible.  Even despite my  best efforts using a strip with the plain side of
the tape down circumferentially to ensure a continuous path, the toroid does
light up in a number of areas with small point sparks. This is visible on
some of my photos as bright spots on the upper toroid eg
http://members.iinet-dot-net.au/~pterren/TeslaScitechaugveronica3.JPG
Peter (Tesla Downunder)

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Subject: Re: Aluminum tape on toroids? What about the sticky side being
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 > Original poster: BunnyKiller <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>
 > the adhesive makes no difference...   whats a 10thousandsth of an inch
 > going to matter compared to 36" of streamer...   besides, if it did act as
 > an insulator and added extra capacitance, you might have to change your
 > tune point on the primary by about 1/10 of a turn...
 > Scot D