Truthfully, when I decided to scale back on this little coil, to
improve
efficiency, I did not expect this kind of performance and efficiency
combined. I was expecting it to be in the 25" range at best. Was
actually
prepared for even low 20's. Actually I did not lose a whole lot to
begin
with when it comes to streamer length. Like I said earlier in this
thread,
36" was the more common max. at terrible efficiency. Only about twice I
got
it to run at 42" and managed to get one picture. Extremely hard to
tune,
terrible efficiency, on the edge of burning up the MOT, short run
times.
Then I decided enough of this.
Scale back and make this also more portable and very pleased to run
indefinitely now also.
So I will admit, puzzled some here, on my little fella. We have
discussed
on here a while back about the need for using a variac using the 140
output
to get max streamer length and the needed extra amperage. Pretty common
as
far as I know for people to use 140 out to "overdrive" some more on
VTTC's.
I am starting to rethink this now some. Actually puzzled more currently
on
this.