Doug,
Nice looking coil, and good performance for a low voltage transformer.
Have you tried running it with a breakout point?
You might consider raising the secondary coil to be even with the
bottom of the primary, for better performance. Any turns below the
bottom of the secondary are producing a voltage contrary to that
produced in the upper half of the secondary, effectively reducing
the length of the secondary and lowering the net output voltage.
Dave
On 5/13/2015 1:31 PM, Doug wrote:
Doug Johnson here; I finished assembling my small coil, complete on
its 8 inch base and made a short video of it in operation.
I am using a 6kv-30ma NST to power it. The caps are 2- 102-30kv
doorknobs, the secondary is 6.5 inches of 24 awg on a 1.5 inch
coil-form.
This is my second coil, the first one I had a set of plans for, and
this one was designed using Teslamap and asking MANY questions of
Bert Hickman, which he showed great patience in answering! {thanks
Bert}
Here is the video. https://youtu.be/mqqd1vPy8Ko
Doug J