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Re: First Light.

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

I cut it in half...........

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


I'll have to test it out this weekend.




On 10/9/06, Tesla list <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: David Dean <<mailto:deano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>deano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

HI

A really hot soldering iron and an exacto knife will remove all the unwanted
copper from the board. An exacto knife will remove all the carbon track.
Cutting in half is pretty much foolproof.

later

deano


On Monday 09 October 2006 00:39, you wrote:
> Original poster: "Glen McGowan" <<mailto:glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx> glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx> 
>
> I'm just gonna cut the mother in half. Faster than dealing with the
> lead times on new components.
>
> On 10/8/06, Tesla list <<mailto: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds"
> <<mailto:gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>
> Hi Glen,
>
> Get a piece of scrap acrylic sheet from your local plastics store and
> drill the holes for the components and use the component leads to hookup.
>
> Gerry R.
>
>  >Original poster: "Glen McGowan"
>
> <<mailto:glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx><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.