Re: Hehe, This is coo coo! Was "I give up!"

["Steve" <Steve-at-g8cyerichmond.freeserve.co.uk> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

I wish this had happened to me last week. I had exactly the opposite happen.
I ran two of my small coils every day for about 1/2 hour to make sure they
would be OK for a demonstration on Saturday. I then packed them into their
carrying cases, took them to the site and set them up. Everything seemed
fine as I set them up. Fire up, and one gave virtually no output, and the
other had a very much smaller output. Fortunately with a lot of fiddling one
of them gave a reasonable output, but the other only produced half the
length sparks it had done. Today I tried them again and everything is back
to normal. I spent three or for hours checking everything, and still I can't
explain it! Caps are ok, gaps are ok, tappings are in their normal
positions. As you say, who knows?
Steve

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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: Hehe, This is coo coo! Was "I give up!"


> Original poster: "Garry F." <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> After getting it tuned last night and fiddling with it and getting weak
> streamers and a week sounding spark gap, but some progress. I turned it
off.
>
> I get up this morning and I turn it on and fair sized streamers come out
all
> over the toroid and the spark gap has a snap to it again.
>
> I didn't change a thing since the night before, I *swear* I didn't! Well,
there
> is one thing different. I held my jaw in a different position. Could that
be
> it? Maybe the fillings in my teeth are detuning and retuning the tesla
coil?
> Who knows?
>
>
>
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