Each winding in a coil adds capacitance to a circuit. Think of each
parallel wire as a plate capacitor.
David Thomson
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 5:00 PM Douglas Johnson <doug379306@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> The way I have this set up I can go 15, 10 .5 tank, and change primary from
> .06 to .250 to .380.
> And could you please explain why less tank = more primary turns? I told you
> I wasn't very technical😉
> Doug
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 4:42 PM derstrom8--- via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Doug,
> >
> > Is there any way for you to reduce your tank capacitance so that you can
> > use more turns on your primary? I'm no expert myself but I'm thinking
> more
> > primary turns and slightly less tank capacitance is better than very few
> > primary turns and a large tank capacitance. Perhaps someone else could
> > chime in here with better qualifications?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matt Lewis, Fairlee VT
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Johnson <doug379306@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sun, Feb 17, 2019 4:24 pm
> > Subject: Re: [TCML] Coupling
> >
> > Hi Gary, Thank you, You can probably tell from most of my posts that I
> am
> > not very technical concerning this stuff, but I have an insatiable
> appetite
> > to learn. That said, I am continuing to try to improve the performance of
> > this little coil, since the video I have improved tuning until l now I am
> > getting " breakouts" from both ends. When I get the coil tuned to what I
> > think is optimum, which may include working to improve the primary. {I
> > think I have too many turns on it because I am down to using only about
> > three}, I will do another video, so any requests or instruction on what
> to
> > look for would be helpful.
> > Doug
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