Re: [TCML] Small coil results

["Ben Sneath" <bsneath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> No Ben, not hard to see because you described it very
> well. Who knows,  maybe you are seeing nearly 5000 bps!
> Cool!
> 
> I would assume it's not running so good (but that is only
> an assumption  and relative to other bps rates). What are
> the sparks like at the top? I  have an imagination but no
> experience at that bps, so my imagination is  worth very
> little.
> 
> Take care,
> Bart

Well for one the sparks look fat and fuzzy. think of the
banjo effect at 5khz. Then again they 
aren't particularly bright, as i'm using a salt water cap
after all (ran out of salt too - the water 
isn't very conductive - and using steel wire for the
interconnects! - possibly the worst cap 
ever made for tesla use!!). 
>From watching other peoples' coils run it would appear they
are also more tightly packed 
than normal, branching a lot more. The sound of this coil is
not the usual 50/60Hz buzz, but 
more of white noise modulated at 50Hz. 
Also, there is one big disadvantage about this breakrate -
the spark gap nearly melts itself, 
and becomes very unstable ( it was firing fine one minute,
then refused to do anything unless 
i closed one segment in a little ). Got to build a better
gap to enable more than a 6 second 
run. 

ben
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