Re: I give up!! I regret building my tesla coil!

[Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

In a message dated 8/20/00 9:15:14 PM Central Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< So, I spend more money and make another secondary and this turns out to be 
3"
 by 24" using #29 magnet wire. Better, but not short enough. Still it produced
 nice 12" sparks easily. I am using a 9kv .2 MA NST and produced 14" streamers
 off the toroid.. >>

Garry,
This does not sound too bad. You say the your NST is 9kV -at- 0.2 mA. That must 
be a misprint. Do you mean 20 mA? That's only 180 Watts and a 12-inch spark 
is not that bad.
Please describe the capacitor.

Cheers,
Ralph Zekelman