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A tragic coil
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Subject: A tragic coil
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:35:22 -0600
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From: Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez@netherworld.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 5:09 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: A tragic coil
MARK [SMTP:moyson@tig.com.au] wrote:
I don't know whether to take this post seriously or not. But on the off
chance
that this isn't a joke, I'll respond in what I hope is a helpful
manner...
> A capacitor 630v .01uf in parallel with primary behind the spark gap (next
> to coil)
You are connecting a capacitor rated at 630 volts to a HV supply putting
out
10,000 volts? I wonder why the cap keeps failing?
> A very old secondary (already wound by someone else) uninsulated copper wire
> 3.2" diameter and 20"tall... 168 turns spaced by 5mm.PVC pipe type.
> Disharge terminal is just a sheet of aluminium ( for the moment)
I assume you don't really mean that the wire is uninsulated. I assume
you
mean enamelled (transparent/translucent insulation either amber, or red,
or
green or some such). If the wire is _really_ uninsulated, you do not
have
a secondary coil, you have created an elaborate copper cylinder...
-G
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