Re: PIRANHA - New Top Load Configuration

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Terry,

Those dragons "deserve" that nice looking secondary (wink, wink)! 
Really, it looks fantastic! A work of art. I like the colors chosen 
as well on the top of the primary and top of the secondary. It gives 
a nice contrast for the whole coil. The dragon corona is really cool. 
I bet that wasn't expected. I guess that's nature congratulating you 
on a job well done!

Oh, I was thinking about the toploads. You could always add a bit 
more art to the toploads to include a breakout if needed. I'm not 
sure what. I'll leave that up to you. I have no doubt there's 
something you'll come up with. After all, the dragons below, hmm, 
what would work above? Of course, that 2nd MOT is always an option, isn't it?

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> I got the secondary pretty coated now :-)
>
> http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/PIRANHA-total-01.JPG
>
> http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/PIRANHA-total-02.JPG
>
> The EnviroTex stuff did a great job even though I did not "baby" it 
> at all ;-))
>
> Remember the dragons:
>
> http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/Dragons.JPG
>
> If there is no breakout point, they corona glow off their wings real cool!!
>
> http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/PIRANHA-DragonsGlowing.JPG
>
> Best digital picture I could take...
>
> I am not sure if the 8 inch balls are "too big" yet...  I can pump a 
> full 300kV into them and they don't even try to break out...  But 
> when they do, I am sure it will be "spectacular" +:D  I sort of 
> think 6 inch balls might be a better choice for similar ~1kW 
> coils...  I will start removing the shorting jumpers in the SISG 
> sections next to pump up the power far greater ;-)))
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Terry
>
>
>
> > The PIRANHA coil is finally going ;-))
> >
> > For primary tuning, I set up the signal generator to frequency 
> > sweep from 100kHz to 110kHz.
> >
> > http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/Tuning.JPG
> >
> > This gave me a nice graph to show the primary frequency:
> >
> > http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/tuning.gif
> >
> > One "nice cable position" gave me 102.5kHz with is close enough  :-)
> >
> > http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/PIRANHA-Const-012.JPG
> >
> > I then bolted it all together to finish it up (still need to poly 
> > coat the secondary coil):
> >
> > http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/Complete-1.JPG
> >
> > http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/Complete-2.JPG
> >
> > Here it is doing 25 inch arcs at 1/2 power:
> >
> > http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/Firing.JPG
> >
> > I can't run full power indoors.  I loose about 10% in spark length 
> > due to the hidden primary (lower coupling) but it wants to arc "too 
> > far" already  :-D
> >
> > So it turned out real good!!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >    Terry