Original poster: "Glen McGowan" <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.