Re: [TCML] Nearly First Firing

[Simon Dodd <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers Gary,
Its a conventional heavy core transformer as far as I'm aware. It is  
an old one and its very heavy!!   The caps are high voltage ceramic  
caps from rmcybernetics.com

Thanks

On 21 Jan 2009, at 20:06, Lau, Gary wrote:

> Is the NST a conventional, heavy core and coil transformer or a  
> lightweight solid state inverter type?  You need the core and coil  
> type.
>
> What kind of caps are these?
>
> Regards, Gary Lau
> MA, USA
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Simon Dodd
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:42 PM
> > To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> > Subject: [TCML] Nearly First Firing
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I went for first light this evening!! Unfortunately there was  
> > nothing!
> > My spark gap fires when there is no capacitor bank in place but as
> > soon as I put my MMC into the circuit and connect the main parts of
> > the coil, the spark gap stops firing :-(  I am using a 10Kv NST  
> > with a
> > static spark gap and 16, 20Kv 1000pf capacitors in parallel. These  
> > are
> > from the calculations on deepfriedneon.  The spark gap will fire if
> > the lead to the outer ring of the primary is left unconnected.
> >
> > Im sorry its not too clear, I can do a quick diagram if you want more
> > info.
> >
> > Thanks for your help again
> >
> > Simon
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