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Re: new little coil



Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Fucian-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 2/13/02 9:57:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< Hello everyone....
 
 This is my first posting here, but I have been reading this list for a few
 months now.
 
 I recently finished building a new coil, and took a couple of pics of my
 makeshift setup to share with everyone! heres the link: 
 
 http://www.85merk-dot-com/members/daves/tssm.jpg
 
 Its powered by a 12/30 NST, a single static gap, and three wine bottle
 capacitors.
 the secondary is 1.5" x 12" tall, the primary is 15 turns of 12 gauge solid
 wire.
 
 so far my sparks have been a healthy 6-7".
 
 It is weird though, this little coil only seem to run good with that tiny
 solid cast iron ball on top (or nothing at all). As soon as I add a bigger
 topload (copper toilet bowl float) my sparks almost completely vanish, even
 with much tuning of the cap, gap, and primary..???
 
 Any input would be great!! (besides my obvious saftey issues, as they have
 mostly been taken care of with the addition of neon sign wire)
 
 thanks, dave schultheis
 
  >>
About the topload deal, my SSTC does the same thing.Someone told me it could 
be that our cols have a certain ideal total capacitance.And we are overdoing 
it.

Matt