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

["Carl Noggle" <cn@xxxxx>]

If you look at the youtube, it looks like the primary turns are touching in 
a couple of places.  Can't tell for sure, but they look pretty close.

---Carl



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Branley
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:13 AM
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCML] Brighten My Arc on my Tesla Coil

How can you tell?  Thx.  Jim.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 18, 2013, at 8:26 PM, "Carl Noggle" <cn@xxxxx> wrote:

> Hey---
>
> It looks as if you may have a shorted turn on your primary.  Make sure you 
> have good spacing on all primary turns.  A shorted turn will eat up power.
>
> ---Carl
>
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> -----Original Message----- From: Scott Bogard
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:59 PM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Brighten My Arc on my Tesla Coil
>
> Hi Jim,
>   I haven't watched your video yet as I am at work, but I can tell you
> from a given coil the only way to make brighter sparks is to process more
> power in the arc.  If you don't want to go with a bigger transformer, you
> can increase the power in the arc by increasing the break rate by using a
> smaller capacitor (and ideally a high break rate rotary spark gap.)  Aside
> from going solid state or making serious gap efficiency improvements that
> is the only way to increase brightness I know of...
>
> Scott Bogard.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Jim <electrical@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewP4leT_C1I>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> >
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