Re: First Light.

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Original poster: "Glen McGowan" <glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>

Here is a pic of the carbon track on the filter perfboard. The arc 
just bounced from one solder pad to the next.

<http://cyplex.morpheus.net/TeslaCoil/FilterArc.jpg>http://cyplex.morpheus.net/TeslaCoil/FilterArc.jpg 



Here's a small video  of the events lastnight. The flashes around the 
bottom is flash over from the last winding of the secondary to the 
brass bolts of the primary supports.  It's actually the space winding 
I did to connect the secondary that's arcing. I think I'm going to 
get rid of the space winding and find a more direct path :

<http://cyplex.morpheus.net/TeslaCoil/Movie_0001.wmv>http://cyplex.morpheus.net/TeslaCoil/Movie_0001.wmv








On 10/7/06, Tesla list <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: "Glen McGowan" 
<<mailto:glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>

Ran nicely the first try..... But it only ran breifly. The perfboard
I used for my terry's filter was the type with the copper solder pads
around each hole. I figured this might be a problem but decided to go
ahead anyway. Well, it bit me.... The coil ran for about five minutes
then an arc from the two HV inputs on the perfboard carbon tracked
across the copper solder points. I couldn't get the coil to fire
after that. The two HV inputs would short before they even made it to
the spark gaps. I couldn't come up with a quick fix so I decided to
tear it down for the evening. I may end up cutting the perfboard in
half and mounting them seperatly.  I  took a couple not so clean
video clips which are encoding at the moment.


I'm too tired to go over the other issues I noticed. I'll tackle
these on another post.

Thanks for everyones help. There is no way to describe that scary
rush you feel right as you apply power to the coil for the first
time. I'll post a pic and clip tomorrow.