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

[Brandon Garretson <garretsontech@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Joe,
I see no end in site myself. I just finished my 4" and have now completed
the design for an 8" for which I have already begun collecting components. I
have plans to build a bi-polar and Im always looking for a pole transformer
in my area so I can someday build a real monster.
I dont know when it will stop, but why should it have to?

BTW, Am I the only one with cool neighbors? Mine really dont care what I do.
A coil is no louder than a leaf blower so I really dont see what the problem
is. You have every right to operate your device in a safe manner. Are these
the type of people who complain to the FAA when a helicopter flies overhead?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Joe Mastroianni <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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