RE: spark plug wires???

["sundog" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi all, Danny,

  Speaker wire, eh?  A good heavy gauge spaker wire *might* work.  I used
lamp cord in a test-setup for a coil, and on a normal SG it worked fine.  On
a rotary (only 9/30 pushing it, resonant MMC), it all got quite hot rather
quickly.  Go with heavier cable for it.  I use 10-12ga stranded wire for my
tank circuits, and it works acceptably.  Got a tad warm on the 2kva setup,
but nothing dangerous.  The tank circuit has lots of RF, so wide, flat
conductors work best.  Maybe 1/4" Cu tubing hammered flat on the ends and
drilled for making connections?
 But don't use the plug wires.  High resistance means you'll be burning off
power as heat and wasting it.

Just my $.02 :)
												Sundog

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Subject: spark plug wires???


Original poster: DANIMAL799-at-aol-dot-com

i have been tossing around a few ideas for how to re-wire my coil for better
performance.  (it doesn't even work yet and i want to re-build it already.
:>)  have built the entire coil so far for a total of 27$  and i want to
keep
it that way.  i am using some beat up speaker wire i found under my couch
for
all of the wring of the tank circuts and it is a pretty poor way to go.   i
was thinking of using some automotive spark plug wires that i couldn't get
to
fit on my 68 firebird to rewire my tank circut     (that car is the reason
that i can only devote 27$ to my tesla coil hobby)  has anyone ever tried
this before??   i am using 2 mot's for a power supply   would the high
amperage of these suckers heat up the wires.  i know they have some sort of
carbon conductor center.  i would assume this would have a higher resistance
than copper   would this cause a lot of heat??  just another one of my new
ideas...  -danny   albuquerque  new mexico