Re: [TCML] tesla coil did not work

[tuna ayan <tunayan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you dave, i agree with you because of i have components but i do not
know clearly how they works. mostly i have tuning problem. so, thanks all of
you. answered me and cared of me. in my country no one interested at tesla
coil. i felt alone till i found this site.

On 4 September 2010 10:58, Dave Halliday <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you Brandon!
>
> Tuna
>
> You have the components that are used in a Tesla coil and you have
> connected
> them into a circuit that should work.
>
> - - - - BUT - - - -
>
> You are missing the most important component -- an understanding of how the
> circuit works.
>
> There is nothing wrong with this, it just takes a little bit of work on
> your
> part.
>
> I built a coil that never worked when I was in high-school (16 years old)
> and my Dad taught me how to solder when I was six years old so I knew how
> to
> build other people's circuits. I just did not have the knowledge to build
> that coil I saw in my mind.
>
> I built my next coil was when I was in my 40's. It worked.
>
> As Brandon said, your best bet is to stop bashing around with what parts
> you
> have and to stop building, step back and start learning. You have spent
> time
> and money gathering parts, save them.
>
> The link to JavaTC is really worth checking out.
>
> Take care and good luck!
> Dave
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brandon Garretson
> > Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 5:50 AM
> > To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [TCML] tesla coil did not work
> >
> > Not to mention the fact that running the coil way out of tune can (and
> > likely will) cause severe damage to the caps and transformer.
> > If you push it too hard with components that you simply guess should
> > work, by the time you do get it in tune you would never know because
> > half your caps or one leg of your tranny could be fried.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Dave Halliday
> > <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > As for your comment: "we must not change primary coil and
> > secondary coil"
> > >
> > > You may have to for it to work. Keep the Secondary coil as
> > is, run those
> > > parameters through JavaTC and see what your Primary needs to be.
> > >
> > > This is not a matter of tossing a couple of coils and
> > capacitors together --
> > > a Tesla Coil is a very carefully tuned dynamic system and
> > if one -- just one
> > > -- aspect of it is out of tune with everything else, the
> > Tesla Coil will
> > > deliver miserable performance.
> > >
> > > Do not be discouraged, use JavaTC and get it running.
> > >
> > > Dave
> >
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