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Re: [TCML] Coil Died

> On 10/9/2013 3:36 PM, Tim Flood wrote:
> > The coil that I just silver soldered together the broken brass strip
> > primary will now only produce a weak purple spark from a break-out
> > point. It performed fairly well with the broken primary. Help!

> > The rest of the story is while I had things apart I replaced the
> > four paralleled door knob caps with an MMC string of
>> 12 .15uF caps in series.
> > The door knob caps produced .011uF and the MMC string .0122 uF per
> > my Wavetek meter. Also increased the gauge of all the tank circuit
> > wiring.
> > Everything else remained the same.

    Another possibility: if the original caps are available,
    substitute them back in.  Possibly the new string is
    having problems.

 best
 dwp
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