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Re: [TCML] Tesla Coil First Light
Excellent little coil. Good workmanship. Nice sparks too. Thanks for sharing the photos.
You've built a very neat, sturdy-looking pedestal for your coil. Any plans to package your components on the bottom shelf? I doubt the salt water capacitor will fit under there, but an MMC with similar rating (9-10nF I'm guessing?) would fit easy enough. Any plans along those lines?
14kv@90mA NST? What an odd size. Where did you find it?
Cheers,
Gregory R. Hunter
http://myweb.cableone.net/grcarhunter
--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Rick Coker <rcoker@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rick Coker <rcoker@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TCML] Tesla Coil First Light
> To: "tesla@xxxxxxxxxx" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 1:19 PM
> My sons and I just completed our
> first Tesla coil and really enjoyed the process and the
> result.
>
> Details for the construction:
>
> 3.5" PVC wrapped with 1200 turns of #27 magnet wire with
> metal dryer hose for toroid ( 216 kHz )
> #6 bare copper for primary wound in flat spiral using 1/2"
> spacing ( approx 43 feet )
> 12 glass Sobe softdrink bottles filled with saltwater for
> tank capacitor
> 14,000v 90mA NST for primary HV source
> fixed spark gap using copper tubing in 3.5" PVC coupling (
> 4 gaps ) with shop vac for quencing
>
> We tuned with signal generator and oscilloscope before
> firing it up and it started up beautifully the
> first time ( we were then able to tune further using trial
> and error )
>
> We were getting 24" streamers when expecting to see 5 - 6"
> maximum with this simple a setup.
>
> Photos on my flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickcoker/sets/72157622356155568/
>
> We were really excited, thanks for letting us post on your
> site.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
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