Re: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!

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Original poster: robert & june heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com> 

Just a thought, The outside of the top must be clean with no salt water path
for the voltage to go from the inside solution to the outside foil on your
bottle. That will short out your capacitor.
    Robert   H
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:53:24 -0700
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!
 > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:10:37 -0700
 >
 > Original poster: Gregory Hunter <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >
 >>> Original poster: "Nightmare"
 >> <nightmare-at-bak.rr-dot-com>
 >>>
 >>> NOO, i dunno whats wrong, i emptiesd the caps,
 >> refilled them with salt
 >>> water,and a layer of motor oil, wrapped in foil,
 >> put in foiled pan, and when
 >>> i fired the coil, the gap fired, and there was
 >> also a REALLY REALLY BRIGHT
 >>> AND LOUD spark on one of the terminals of the
 >> caps, then after a second it
 >>> stopped getting loud and the spark on the caps
 >> just stayed there, i
 >>> unplugged it. This happened twice, can someone
 >> tell me what the -at-!#$ just
 >>> happened? how do i fix it, i still only got 1
 >> inch spark max when i touched
 >>> a rod to the topload, otherwise no spark! Please
 >> help
 >
 > Are you using glass bottles or plastic? If you are
 > using plastic, switch to glass, preferably beer
 > bottles. Beer bottles are thin (to cut down on weight
 > and cost) yet strong and uniform (to withstand the
 > pressure of fizz). They will yield about 750-900pF per
 > bottle. A 6-pack will give you 5nF, a 12-pack 10nF.
 > Beer bottle caps are bulky & heavy, but nearly
 > indestructible. I've been using the same set of foiled
 > "Miller Genuine Draft" bottles for many years with
 > zero failures.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >
 > =====
 > Gregory R. Hunter
 >
 > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
 >
 >