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Re: Winter Project with New Primary/Secondary

Tesla List wrote:
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> >From ccurran-at-execpc-dot-comSun Oct 20 21:36:22 1996
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 19:21:09 -0500
> From: Chuck Curran <ccurran-at-execpc-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Winter Project with New Primary/Secondary
> 
> Hello All:
>         I've been tied up so much at work I guess I haven't been able to think
> "Tesla" much lately.  Today I was able to pick up a big chunk of PVC
> pipe from a new sewer going in next to our plant.  I've been waiting
> about 4 months for two 12" by 60" lengths of acrylic tube that are going
> to be trashed at work some day ( in 1 month to 17 years?), but this
> chunk of PVC looked too good to let it get hauled away in the dumpster.
> I got a piece that is 15 1/4" O.D. by 59" long.  My present secondary is
> 8" by 36" so this will be a big change.  I plan on a new cap and
> primary, but the power system I built with the pole pig will be all set
> now that the bugs are all flushed out (or most of them!).  I am in the
> middle now of the final fabrication of a new vacuum gap and I am adding
> 1/8" diameter thoriated tungsten tips to my stationary electodes on the
> current rotary.  The guys in maintenance had many boxes of tungsten rods
> in 6" lengths, in various diameters--since they are sure I'm crazy with
> this Tesla Coil, they happily supplied two pieces(with heads all
> shaking).  I'm going to set up a another secondary winder with a bigger
> drive motor and gear reduction unit for this puppy.  I've already got a
> motor gear box but it has a 3 phase motor and I want to use a 90 Volt DC
> on this gear unit for variable speed drive.  We make 'em all, so I just
> got to wait for a Quality reject(or order a Lab sample???).  Hope to
> have it wound in 2-4 months and then order the bigger cap than the one
> for my present coil.  I guess I could ask the wife for a cap for Xmas??
> (It would be knit!)
> 
> Chuck

Chuck,

Congratulations on your latest scrounge. Sounds like you'll have enough
things to do over the winter to really keep you occupied! A 15" coil,
with a bigger primary, and more primary capacitance should really cook. 
BTW, how far north are you from the Chicago area??

-- Bert --