Re: [TCML] Brighten My Arc on my Tesla Coil

[Harvey Norris <harvich@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Thu, 4/18/13, Jim <electrical@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jim <electrical@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TCML] Brighten My Arc on my Tesla Coil
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 6:21 AM
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Can you please suggest to me a way to increase the
> brightness of my arc on my Tesla Coil? It is a classic coil
> that uses 2 - 9,000 volt neon sign transformers. It stands
> about 48" high and produces up to 30" arcs. It uses a copper
> pipe type static spark gap. Here is a youtube video of the
> coil. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewP4leT_C1I
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
Shouldnt the spark gap and cap change places in the video schematic so that the arc gap appears to shunt (short)the HV supply?(This is the old thread on whether the primary L and C values should be in series or parallel/ we could never get it to work in parallel.) I could not access the entire video, it keeps stopping saying an error occurred. It stopped at 1:28 for three viewings in a row, and even started over on one of these viewings. I now see other videos doing this so it must be my computer glitching again... HDN
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