You are not the only one, I can't get anything but an invalid connection also.
"Move along now, nothing to see here, these are not the droids you are looking for."
Best Regards,
Allen
-----Original Message-----
From: Teslalabor <teslalabor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Jan 2, 2015 8:07 am
Subject: Re: [TCML] Need some advice on 150kva sgtc
Okay, obviously I am the only one who doesn't see any photos when clicking
on:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=671287332969054&set=a.110176789080114.14601.100002633816524&type=1
For me this link is invalid. Are there photos of the system anywhere else,
maybe even for the "non-facebook" people?
----- Original Message -----
From: <lightningfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Need some advice on 150kva sgtc
> It would be intersting to see how arc length would improve if you lift the
> coil up a bit off the ground, and increase the BPS rate.
> Coupling is also pretty important on big coils...
> Have you experimented with increasing the coupling at all?
>
> Carlos
>
> On 2015-01-02 08:13, vam@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> You got my message spot on Carlos.
>> The coil produces constant streamers about 20- 23 feet, or 6 - 7 meters.
>> It's very impressive. But i did make a coil with 1 m winding length
>> before, producing 3 meter sparks at 20 kw.
>> so i expected around 10 meters with this set up. but 7 seems the max.
>>
>>> Big machines like this are typically less efficient than there smaller
>>> brothers and sisters.
>>> I have not taken the time to run the numbers on the info you provided,
>>> but if the system is well balanced and in tune and pulling 40kva, I
>>> would expect to see 20-25 foot long arcs at minimum.
>>> The height of the coil will also be a limiting factor to some degree...
>>>
>>> I assume from your question that you are not happy with the performance
>>> or it did not meet your expectations?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> carlos
>>>
>>> On 2015-01-02 06:03, vam@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> Me and some friends built this coil. It's total height is 5 meters. the
>>>> donut is 2,60 by 60 cm. the coil is 65 cm dia with 1200 turns of
>>>> 2.5^2mm
>>>> installation wire. about 3.6 meter winding length. Cap, DR resonance
>>>> 100nF, 80kv 4 in parallel.
>>>> We feed it with a 180kva 10kv yz5 transformer. Rectify the lot to 16kv.
>>>> ballast ensures 32kv on the cap. at 200 bps we draw 50-60 amps per
>>>> fase.
>>>> so roughly 40 kw. Max bps is 700.
>>>> Now the question. What kind of spark length should be possible from
>>>> this
>>>> coil?
>>>>
>>>> Picture of the coil.
>>>> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=671287332969054&set=a.110176789080114.14601.100002633816524&type=1
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