Re: lil help please

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Original poster: Illicium Verum <sebas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hello Jimbo,

You can buy formed coils, this saves a lot of trouble. You can buy 
them at air-conditioner repair centers, an other option is to buy 
them at hydraulics repair centers,a third option is to buy them at 
car repair centers where they are used for brake oil and fuel distribution.


Best regards,

Sebastiaan


Friday, October 14, 2005, 7:45:58 PM, you wrote:


> Original poster: <mailto:Jimbo07031982@xxxxxxx>Jimbo07031982@xxxxxxx


> i am getting ready to build my 2nd t.c and was wondering what is the

> best way to form a primary coil (the first one i every built was just

> literally thrown together the primary was formed by hand and looked

> like crap turned out it was crap too) is there any tools that would

> help in the forming of this to make a nice uniform coil and what

> would be the best thing ti use (the first one i built i used 3/8 inch

> copper tubing should i go bigger or smaller) i do have some

> electronics background but not much and i am horrible at math because

> of this i am having some trouble designing and building a good coil

> (if there is anyone willing to help through this step by step please

> let me know of list at

> 
<<mailto:jimbo07031982@xxxxxxx>mailto:jimbo07031982@xxxxxxx><mailto:jimbo07031982@xxxxxxx>jimbo07031982@xxxxxxx) 
Also I hope to

> be in FL for the 2005 teslathon I am moving down just as soon as I

> finish taking care of some things up here in Ohio. Hopefully I can

> get some good pointer's and idea's if I am able to make. thanks a

> bunch. JIMBO


> p.s I will be using a 6kv 30 ma nst to power the whole thing and have

> 6 400pf 30kv caps in parallel and are ceramic doorknob style I do

> have a variac that I use that goes up to 140v ac.

> also the first coil i built i connected the primary and secendary

> coils together would this cause a lose in performance and i did not

> seal the ends of the sec, coil at all like i said i just threw the

> thing together to see if a could get something to work altogether i

> think i spent $50 building the whole thing besides the obvious flaws

> with the sec. what can i do to get spark's bigger then 4-6 inch long

> seeing as that is the biggest i was able to get.(do i need more v or

> is what i have sufficent i am aiming to get at least 20-24 inch

> sparks out of my next coil






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Best regards,

Sebastiaan