Re: My 4 inch tesla coil - part 2

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Original poster: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>

Eric,

You should remove the innermost turn, perhaps the innermost 1,5 turn.

It is too close to the primary.

With a damage so close to the end of the secondary, simply unvind 
wire untill the damaged wire is off. Retune a bit, and go!

Hope it helps.

Cheers, Finn Hammer

Tesla list skrev:
> Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I've made the suggested improvements to my primary coil, which you 
> can see here:
> <http://www.hydrogen18.com/projectlogs/hivolt/4inchtesla/>http://www.hydrogen18.com/projectlogs/hivolt/4inchtesla/ 
>
> and the results here:
> <http://www.hydrogen18.com/projectlogs/hivolt/4inchtesla/4_15_2007/>http://www.hydrogen18.com/projectlogs/hivolt/4inchtesla/4_15_2007/ 
>
> Questions arising from such:
> - I've got rather active arcing from the primary to the secondary 
> now. How do I solve this. More layers of shellac on the secondary? 
> Even if I eliminate the breakout point from the secondary that I 
> unintentionally created, I think it's just going to arc from the 
> first turn to the secondary.
> - Is there any hope of repairing the secondary? Although it has tiny 
> burnt spots on it, it doesnt seem dead yet..I'm getting pretty good 
> performance. No shorted turns im guessing. Can I sand the carbonized 
> areas off with high grade sand paper before re-shellacing?
> - Before anyone mentions it, yes I'm still using the same terrible 
> spark gap. I don't think that's much of a concern at the moment 
> given my other problems.
> Eric