RE: [TCML] I guess that's 'first light'...

["Stephen J. Hobley" <shobley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes that's very true - I started to see a "heat haze" effect before I saw the streamers.

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From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Phillip Slawinski
Sent: Fri 8/1/2008 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [TCML] I guess that's 'first light'...



Running in the day allows you to see the disturbance in the air caused by
the heat of the streamers.  I thought this was pretty cool the first time I
saw it.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:51 PM, bunnykiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Steve...
>
> best to run the coil in a dark enviroment for effective streamer length
> testing...
> do you have access to a dark garage or room? If so do it... if not, set up
> for a night time run...  if you saw 12" in the daylight you were probably
> getting 18+ in actuality...  the faint ends of the streamers are difficult
> to see in daylight. Option 2 is to set up a grounded rod as a strike hit
> point and measure the distance from toroid to rod. You will know a hit when
> the streamer goes from blue-ish to white and wants to hang there for a few
> seconds...
>
> I have run my smaller coils in the day time and only to see 24" of
> streamers but at night the same coil will produce streamers up to 40"....
>
> Scot D
>
>
>
> Stephen J. Hobley wrote:
>
>  OK I sanded the inside of the coil - did not remove all of the trace but
>> abou 90% - I will work on this again later.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cleaned the inside with alcohol, made sure not to get alcohol on the
>> coil.
>>
>>
>> Removed the metal connector on the top and replaced it with a nylon
>> bolt, relocated the top of coil to outside the form.
>>
>>
>>
>> I ran the coil again for about 30 seconds with no evidence of streamers,
>> then checked inside the form to see if there was any fresh scoring -
>> there was none.
>>
>>
>> Re-adjusted the primary tap and got 12" streamers coming off the top.
>> Difficult to say how long they really were as it was sunny outside. But
>> it's working!
>>
>>
>> Now I can start to get it optimized...
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
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