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Re: Tesla Coil - Internal Arcing on Secondary
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- Subject: Re: Tesla Coil - Internal Arcing on Secondary
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- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:38:06 -0600
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Original poster: Brady Hauth <bhauth@xxxxxxxxx>
I fixed it by removing the internal primary and adding an external
one. It was arcing through the primary through 3/8 in of acrylic. I'm
now getting 3 ft peak sparks with Fres tuning from theory, without
good spark gap adjustment, and with big unpatched corona leaks.