I believe it was Gary Lau who floated this theory, I thought it was quite
insightful at the time =)
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 8:40 AM, undisclosed recipient via Tesla <
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The pipes rattling were from the solenoids on the washing machine! Just
> for giggles I shut off the water supply to the washer and it stopped.
> The cause (besides the obvious) was due to the excess primary coil after
> the outer connection which made it grossly detuned.
> Now that things are tighter, the TC is running at approx. 180 kHz.
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> I got some pretty awesome corona around the toroid reaching 16 inches down
> to the ground ring.
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> However, it did not get to this until after I added 7 more salt water caps
> which put the primary cap at almost 29 nF.
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> > On Jun 17, 2016, at 8:59 PM, Ed <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Interesting possibility because opportunities for EMI are so high.
> Another possibility of course is that any such correlation is pure
> coincidence.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> > On 6/17/2016 11:55 AM, msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> I'm quite impressed with this chain of thought, brilliant!
> >>
> >> ----- Reply message -----
> >> From: "Gary Lau" <glau1024@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [TCML] pipes rattling
> >> Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2016 10:49 AM
> >>
> >> How about this theory? Your TC is radiating some EMI that is causing
> some
> >> appliance or sprinkler system with solenoid valves to spasm? Do you
> have a
> >> sprinkler system or dishwasher that someone can monitor while you run
> your
> >> coil?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Gary Lau, MA, USA
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Phil <pip@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sounds like the pipes are reacting to one another, rather than
> en-masse to
> >>> the surrounding ground, much like Ed says.
> >>> Out of curiosity I would run it with solely a single earth, and then
> try
> >>> two
> >>> pipes alongside one another, as I wonder if pipes of dissimilar metal
> would
> >>> behave differently to two of the same metal?
> >>>
> >>> Phil
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: undisclosed recipient [mailto:arcin_n_sparkin@xxxxxxxxx]
> >>> Sent: 16 June 2016 13:11
> >>> To: Phil
> >>> Subject: pipes rattling
> >>>
> >>> Yes.
> >>> When I have it tuned for top running (still working on primary coil
> >>> resonance) with what I had, it did it every time.
> >>>
> >>> At first I thought it was the motor in either the washer or dryer, but
> then
> >>> I grabbed the faucets for the washer and they were shaking to beat the
> >>> band.
> >>>
> >>> All I can figure is that the emf from the primary is somehow causing
> them
> >>> to
> >>> resonate.
> >>>
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