Re: Streamer length vs. power delivery time...

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Original poster: Steve Ward <steve.ward@xxxxxxxxx>

Terry and all else interested,

I got some scope shots of my coil running, you can see them here:

http://www.stevehv.4hv.org/DRSSTC1.htm

Allll the way at the bottom (that page is getting long!)

I found something interesting.  At about half-spark length output, the
ringdown is just 1-1.5 cycles, but at full power, the ringdown is at
least 2 cycles.  Maybe there is a "mismatch" from the streamers
growing.  I found that changing the tuning only 1/6th of a turn caused
a 100A difference in primary current! (800A down to 700A).  So perhaps
i was slightly off tune and not getting the best energy transfer due
to this.  Or maybe i need to tweak my coupling some more.

I also got to run the coil without a breakout point, now that the
coupling is reasonable to deal with ;-).  Very wild!  but it started
to arc to the nearby flowers, so i stopped that before anyone found
out, hehe.

Have you got that streamer model figured out yet terry? ;-)

Steve