A little design help

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall" <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,

I'm getting ready to build my first TC in a while. The object is to build
two small, identical TC's. Some of you may remember the one and only Nor Cal
Teslathon. At that evemt, Greg's coil was fired next to a smaller coil. They
must have been running at very close to the same frequency, as the smaller
coil began throwing respectable arcs, while unplugged. What Id like to do is
build two small coils capable of reproducing that effect.

As a starting point, I have two identical Allanson 15/60 NSTs. I could also
use two OBITS that I have )7/20 I think) I also have two of John's very nice
spun small torroids, ~ 6" diameter and 1 3/4 thick. I have tried using some
of the TC calcs to determine the best secondary specs to use. However, I
just don't know enough to be sucessful. So, I thought I would ask on this
learned list for suggestions. Max performance isn't the main point, I'd just
like to make a simple and portable setup, with a simple traditional spark
gap.

So, any suggestions for secondary specs, primary, cap? Bearing in mind that
I really want to use the NSTs and the spun toroids.

Thanks!

Jonathan
www.madlabs.info