Fw: Capacitor Help

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Original poster: "MalcolmTesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Opps, made a typo.  I was supposed to say 27 AWG below, not 17.

Thanks
Malcolm

----- Original Message -----
From: "MalcolmTesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Capacitor Help


> I started making my primary.  I'll give a link to a picture below.  It's
> made from 25 feet of 1/4" ice maker copper tubing.  There are 7 full turns
> and a little more on the sides.  As you can see in the pic the overall
> diameter is about 17 ~ 18" depending on where you measure.  Inside
diameter
> starts around 6 ~ 7".
> The wire I've ordered for the secondary is 17 AWG (1.3 lbs on the way).
My
> PVC is 4" diameter.
> When winding my secondary should I pay more attention to counting turns or
> more attention as to how far up the PVC the windings go?  Someone had
> mentioned about 18", others have said 1300 to 1500 windings.  Now that you
> see my primary and have more information what do you guys recommend?
Thanks
> :)
>
> Oh and this pic is after spending some time bending the tubing, it's not
> fastened down yet, just loosely laying there so it looks a little sloppy.
I
> must say I have great respect for you guys that have such perfect looking
> primary's.  How on earth do you guys bend them up so neatly?
>
> http://www.v8-ranger.com/temp/tesla/7.jpg
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Capacitor Help
>
>
> > Original poster: Terry Fritz <vardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > At 12:27 PM 12/13/2005, you wrote:
> > >Hey guys,
> > >
> > >After much searching and calling around I finally got the 338-1175-nd
> caps
> > >from Digi.  I got 14 so I'll have two extra incase of problems.
> >
> > Cool!  They should be fine.  It helps some to take stress off the
> > caps by keeping the secondary frequency low (lots of secondary turns
> > and big top terminal), but don't worry about it much.
> >
> > >Everywhere
> > >I called only had 10 pound spools of wire and the cheapest I found was
$9
> a
> > >pound for 28 AWG.  I was about to break down and pay the $90 from a
local
> > >supplier when I got back in touch with surplussales.com to see if
> anything
> > >had changed since my last call to them and sure enough the guy had 1.3
> > >pounds of 27 AWG for $13.  Woo Hoo!  He's shipping that out to me right
> > >away.
> >
> > Cool!!
> >
> >
> > >Thanks guys.
> > >
> > >Oh and I have another quick question :) on the high voltage side I see
> some
> > >people wire the capacitor in series with the primary and others put the
> > >spark gap in series and the capacitor in parrallel with the NST.  Which
> way
> > >is correct? or does it even matter?  I was going to put the capacitor
in
> > >series with the primary.
> >
> > The spark gap should be across the NST parallel with the NST.  When
> > the gap fires, it tends to put a short across the NST which helps to
> > protect it greatly.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >          Terry
> >
> >
> >
> > >Thanks
> > >Malcolm
> >
> >
> >
> >
>