Re: 20 joules at 100 bps vs 4 joules at 500 bps

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Original poster: "Dmitry (father dest)" <dest@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello Malcolm.

> Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I remember well a quote once from Richard Hull when speaking about his
> experience of increasing power input to his Nemesis coil. To paraphrase he
> said that up to about 7kW "the sparks grew slowly to about 2 - 3 feet" (I
> am trying to recall all this you understand - you will come across it one
> of his posts in the list archives). The he said "we added in another kW
> and suddenly the 8 footers were there" or words to that effect.

i`m now finishing 95 year - reading goes slowly, but it goes %-) one coiler
run 8kw and get only miserable 73" - it`s _very_ funny to read :-) i`m going
to shoot myself right in my face if my 2kw mot coil will not outperform this
10-years-old pole pig powered dinosaur :-))) what power levels did you
personally worked with? you`re coiling more than 10 years - haven`t you seen
something similar in your coils? and what - after 5-10 years this effect is
still a mystery for all? :-)

> Another coiler (Robert Stephens)  killed a  tendency for one of his
> coils to flashover by placing a series of  acrylic disks along the
> length of his secondary to increase the  creepage distance, fluted
> insulator-style.
> >
> > it`s widely used in power engineeringc, really - why not glue these
> > discs with a poly? the coil would look like a giant
> > insulator :-))) i must try this in the future - maybe then up to 6
> > secondary heights  would be shooted? :-)
>
> Maybe - try it and let us know.

you prefer to wait a year instead of trying this by yourself? why - don`t
you have time & resources as i don`t, or you just don`t "believe" that this
may help? :-)

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I have run coils up to 20KW in residential neighborhoods.  I have
received death threats and have had the police, fire, and department of
water and power all show up at the same time. Screw 'em all. Keep firin'.
(c) Mark Barton  29-09-95