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[TCML] first light disaster



I rolled the coil out of the shop for the first light, connected it up, but forgot the primary tap. When I attempted to fire it the primary began to arc at higher power. I realized what I had done and tapped the primary accordingly. Subsequent trials resulted in nothing. I rolled the coil back into the shop, inspected it and found that the capacitor on each end of the bank had visibly failed, swelled and leaked. Ringing the NST indicates that it may not be damaged.

Is this a case of "oops i made a mistake" or do I need to do further investigation, preliminary tuning, or what? By the way, is there a good method of "roughing in" the SRSG timing prior to firing?

Thank you very much,

Marko
kc5gym

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