Re: Loud pop (?) (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:00:50 -0600
From: Glen McGowan <glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Loud pop (?)

I don't think it's that.... My secondary is sealed on both ends and contains
two baffles as well. I'm not horribly worried about it but I'd like to at
least know what's causing it. It may be something simple. Others have
suggested it could be the safety gap. I'ts a fairly loud snap that's hard to
get a direction from but I watch the safefy gap and see if the arc's match
the sound.

On 12/8/06, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Original poster: "Derek" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>   >Anybody know what would cause a loud pop or snap every few  >seconds?
> Can't locate it exactly but it sounds like it's coming from  >around the
> top
> of the secondary closer to the toroid. I see no racing  >arc's etc. The
> sound doesn't seem to be related to the streamers.
>
> I had a similar loud pop coming from (apparently) the top of my secondary,
> after a lot of investigation I found that I was getting an arc from top to
> bottom down the inside of my secondary coil form. I actually made a 45 deg
> mirror assembly that fitted below the torroid to prove it..
>
> After cleaning the inside of the coil form and adding a couple of baffles
> the problem went away.
>
>         Derek
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