It seems you are completely missing the point.
The point is: Why bother with ribbon when copper tubing works better. No
additional soldering necessary. Easy to install and easy to tap.
Dr. Resonance
Resonance Research Corp.
www.resonanceresearch.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yurtle Turtle" <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Q,,question
Heck, once you've gone to all the trouble to split and
flatten the tubing, it would be "simple" to solder a
AWG 10 or 8 solid wire to each edge, to avoid corona.
Adam
--- resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you go thru all this trouble producing a copper
ribbon you run into
another, and more serious, problem --- corona.
The edge of the ribbon is very sharp as compared to
the well rounded surface
of a 3/4 inch ID copper tubing. This effect
produces a lot of corona
sweeping up the coil and will start to deteriorate
the coil especially in
high performance coils that have a spark length = or
greater than the sec
coil length.
If you use a copper ribbon and shoot some B&W 30 sec
time lapse photos you
will see a large amount of nearly invisible (to the
human eye) corona
sweeping up the coil. Try the same with copper
tubing and the effect is
very minimal.
I did this experiment near 40 years ago with an old
B&W camera, and never
again use copper ribbon for any of my primary coils.
Copper tubing is the
best and certainly the most reliable solution.
Dr. Resonance
Resonance Research Corp.
www.resonanceresearch.com
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