Re: first coil results!

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Original poster: Devon Ferns <dferns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks I'll give that a try.  Here's a video of it graciously hosted by 
Chris Watkins
http://www.hvfun.com/dferns/

Devon.

On Apr 8, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Devon,
>
> Sounds like your coil is being force driven.  Might want to try raising 
> the secondary above the primary a bit.
>
> David E Weiss
>
> > Original poster: Devon Ferns <dferns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I've gotten my tesla coil working and demonstrated it at our first year 
> > engineering design showcase.  Everyone was impressed with it.
> >
> > The thing about the coil I don't get it seems that I can tap the primary 
> > almost anywhere.  I have a small secondary, only about 8 inches tall, 1.6 
> > inches in diameter, 600 turns.  The coil works great but I find it 
> > strange that it works so easily no matter where I tap it.  The sparks 
> > output are also not really any different at any tapping point.
> > Maybe my 9kV NST is just so powerful it works just by normal transformer 
> > rules and it's not really resonating?
> >
> > I have a video of it but no where to host it except my home DSL line, 
> > which I doubt anyone would want to download from.
> > I want to thank Terry for the free capacitors and everyone else that 
> > answered my questions.
> >
> > Devon.

Devon