Re: I Need Help!

• To: tesla@pupman.com
• Subject: Re: I Need Help!
• From: FutureT@aol.com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla@uswest.net>)
• Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:57:47 -0600
• Approved: twftesla@uswest.net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla@pupman.com@fixme

In a message dated 4/22/00 4:29:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla@pupman.com 
writes:

> 
>  My coil was giving about 5 inches then its dropped to about 1/2 an inch now
>  it hardly works at all - the spark gap sort of fizzes with a faint purple
>  arc but it will ony jump about 1/2mm. I think the may be something wrong
>  with my NST one side jumps about 3/4 of an inch to ground and the other
>  jumps about 1/4 but it only did that before and it worked.

Oliver,

Did you try cleaning the gap?  Oxides can bridge, or semi-bridge, the
gaps and cause a drastic decrease in output.  If that doesn't help,
then the NST must be just too far gone, or things are shorting out,
etc.

John Freau

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