Peter,
If you pull an arc from your NST does it look strong and pull out about an inch or so?
If not it is your NST.
If so, then connect your capacitors and spark gap in parallel with the NST, and disconnect the tesla coil.
When you turn that configuration on your spark gap should sound like gunfire and be *really* loud. If not it is your caps.
Let me know if you get "gunfire" sound or not. We can go from there.
Miles
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Sutter"<peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List"<tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:44:25 PM
Subject: [TCML] Re-visited - Newbie question - Where does all the energy go?
I refer to my problem as described in http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2012/Apr/msg00135.html.
I followed the recommendations by various posters,
- I re-built the spark gap, same result.
- I made various new capacitors, same result.
- I added a second 12 KV 30 ma NST in parallel, same result.
- I re-wired all connections with 10 gauge, same result.
The only part left untouched now is the secondary coil. Is it possible that there is a short circuited winding? Would that be
consistent with the problems I experience?
How would I find the location of the short? I inspected it visually but can't find anything odd. What would I look for? would it get
warm at the fault after prolonged running?
Thanks for any assistance.
Peter
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