Re: [TCML] largest secondary coil you'd drive with an NST

[Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>]

We'd like photos as well.

Adam

--- huil888 <huil888@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jared -
> 
> Please share the details of this EXTREMELY large
> secondary. Unless I'm 
> misreading your post (below) your secondary was
> wound with 5.5 miles (over 
> 29,000 feet) of wire. Regardless of the aspect
> ratio, that's a large 
> secondary! A big secondary coil 24" in diameter X
> 72" long (winding length) 
> wound with #23 AWG wire would only use around 18,000
> feet of wire, so your 
> coil must be really large.
> 
> If you have already been able to compare the
> operating efficiency of this 
> large coil against a solid state coil, it must mean
> that the coil is up and 
> running, and you have measured spark output length
> and input power. Can you 
> let us know the maximum spark length it has been
> able to achieve so far, and 
> what the input power was?
> 
> Also, since you note that it "rivals the efficiency
> of a solid state coil", 
> that must mean that it's something else: a
> conventional spark gap coil, a 
> huge vacuum-tube coil, or something completely new?
> 
> Please provide details! Circuit topology, spark
> performance, power source, 
> secondary dimensions, type of secondary coil form
> used, configuration of 
> primary coil, value of tank capacitor, etc, etc.
> 
> Even better, a few photos of the coil in operation
> would answer many 
> questions, and certainly help support your case that
> "more wire is better".
> 
> Regards,
> Scott Hanson
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jared Dwarshuis" <jdwarshuis@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 12:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [TCML] largest secondary coil you'd
> drive with an NST
> 
> 
> > Our latest coil uses 5.5 miles of 23 gauge and it
> rivals the efficiancy of 
> > a
> > solid state coil.
> >
> > More wire is better!
> >
> > Jared Dwarshuis
> 
>  
> 
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