Re: small secondary question

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Original poster: m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx 

On 30 Nov 2005, at 22:07, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "miles waldron" <mileswaldron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Please see this link to a little secondary tried.
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<http://www.gravitymagnet.com/images/IMG_0005.JPG>http://www.gravitymagnet.com/images/IMG_0005.JPG
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> There are some winding errors.
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> It is 1 and 1/4 inch in diameter and 9 and 1/2 inches of wound wire onto
> pvc.
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> It has an unknown number of turns of what I was told was 30G platinum wire.
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> It measures exactly 15 ohms, and not open or short circuit.
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> When I spark this little guy up inside a primary and tank that are known
> good (from another working coil)
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> I get nothing out the topwire. With toploads I still get nothing.
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> Any advice would be appreciated.

Tuning is always the #1 suspect when the word "unknown" crops
up.  Are you able to measure the coil's resonant frequency?
Platinum doesn't sound like a wonderful choice for a high Q
resonator.

Malcolm

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