Re: EMI Filter Hookup? -- Internal House Wiring Popping And Crackling

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: EMI Filter Hookup? -- Internal House Wiring Popping And Crackling
From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:05:21 -0700
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hi all,
           For the first time this year I got around to a bit of firing to put 
on a show for the rellies who were down for the weekend. The setup 
was pretty basic but worked very smoothly - two 15kV 60mA NSTs 
run in parallel, a 5" secondary with an inverted pyramid of toroidal 
toploads, a helical primary, coupling adjusted to avoid racing sparks 
a single tungsten carbide 1/2" static gap and PFC caps and a 10A 
line filter preceding the variac. The primary cap was about 34nF of 
MMCs. We got smooth operation with resonant charging and nice 
four footers with the variac set to about 60%. I had to water the 
ground for a while before firing as the ground was so dry. I used no 
safety gaps, RF filters etc. The transformers were about 1-1/2' away 
from the gap.  The neighbour across the road reported a few dots 
on his TV screen (indoor aerial in a moderately marginal reception 
area). 

Regards,
Malcolm