Re: [TCML] Paralleling 15/30 15/60 NSTs

["David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joe,

Congrats on the success of your coil project and successfully
tweaking more power into it. I think the bottom line is, if you
are wanting to really push the envelope with power and ever
longer sparks, you'll eventually have to break away from the
NSTs and go ahead and get yourself a pole pig (assuming
continued SG driven only coil building). Of course, as you
mention, you start to run into more problems when you start
going really big with your coils, as can be seen by the outdoor
operation of my nearly 8 ft. tall behemoth "Green Monster"
in this video segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3pfStBx2qY
I need a pole barn ;^) I have a 39 acre piece of open property
about 90 minutes drive from my house, with availabe electri-
city - just need to obtain the funds to build something on it ;^/

David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Mastroianni" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Paralleling 15/30 15/60 NSTs


Hi All,

Phased the 2 NSTs via the www.geekgroup.com  method.  Spliced them together 
and gave it a shot.  Only had the variac up about 1/2 way and I was getting 
pretty good sparks.  I was afraid to go further because I haven't yet 
increased the MMC.  I have all the 942 caps, just need to get behind the 
drill press and get to work this weekend.    I also have to pretty up the 
whole power supply because I just stripped various wires and tied things 
down un-workmanlike.  So no pictures until it's beautiful.

But the paralleling works well even though one is a 15/30 and the other is a 
15/60.  So now I have a 15/90.

So, I'm looking for further guidance here....at some point you stop making 
it bigger, right?  Because I honestly see no end to my desire to keep 
tweaking and bringing up the power one quantum at a time, and making new 
spark gaps, and experimenting with break rates and architectures and endless 
refinements. I'm frightened by John's web site where he chronicles an angry 
neighbor attack.  I would not be as lucky.  With my hood, a neighbor would 
rush the running coil with a piece of steel conduit and get himself zapped 
before destroying my coil by collapsing into it with fibrillations.

So I'm trying to figure out when is a good time to stop with the power 
boosts - but I can't see the end right now.

My wife is already looking for a 12-step program for coilers and working to 
set up an intervention.

;-)
Joe


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