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Re: First light great.

Original poster: "Chuck Hobson" <g0mdk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I had a small TC which I used for demo. It was easily to assemble and disassemble. On one occasion it behaved exactly as you described. I tried raising and lowering the terminal, various break points, etc. to little avail. Then I discovered the ground connection to the bottom of the secondary was not connected. Correcting this fixed the problem.

Good luck

Chuck


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: First light great.


> Original poster: "Daniel Koll" <dk_spl_audio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> No I was not using a break out, I just attached my secondary magnet wire
to
> the bottom of the sphere using aluminum tape.  Should I change
> something?  I cannot change the height of my primary or secondary > without
> massive reconstruction.  It would take hours and hours to change now.  I
> was told that the bottom of the secondary and primary should be on the
same
> plane so that is what I did.  Thanks
>
> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: First light great.
> >Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:47:13 -0600
> >
> >Original poster: jdwarshui@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >Hi Daniel
> >
> >I would agree with Gary about being overcoupled but it is also likely

> >that you need to re tap your primary. We usually place our spherical
> >capacitors directly on the end of the secondary. Many coilers believe
> >that spheres are inferior to toroids but I am not convinced that this
> >is true and have never seen any evidence to support this assertion.
> >
> >Are you using a breakout on your sphere?
> >
> >Jared Dwarshuis
> >
>
>
>