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Re: Big TC design








tesla-at-pupman-dot-com on 04.12.98 03:01:38

To:   tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
cc:    (bcc: Marco Denicolai/MARTIS)
Subject:  Re: Big TC design




Original Poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com

>This is indeed a big coil.  I did some reverse calculating and it looks
like
>your planned toroid capacitance is only about 60 to 70 pf.  I have almost
that
>much on my 6.0" coil.  I would think you would want one or maybe several
very
>large toroids for this coil.  That will decrease the resonant frequency
even
>further and require more tank capacitance.  I think designing the system
to
>use .10 uf would be a good idea.  I use a .05 uf cap with my system.

>Ed Sonderman

Correct, I planned a 60 pF toroid.

- What kind of output are you getting with your 60 pF toroid?

- Is it a single streamer or not?

- Did you try with bigger/smaller toroids?

- How much power your coil uses?