Re: new little coil

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Jaime -

It will be fine. The primary is coupled to the secondary via lines of
magnetic force
(not direct connections).

Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<dbanse-at-comcast-dot-net>
>
> Dude,
>
> I don't know much about this stuff yet,
>
> But I looked at your pics, and I though I saw that you are using a piece of
> PVC or something to wind the primary coil around.
>
> If this is the case, I think that doing that would drastically reduce the
> amount of electricity being conducted to the primary??
>
> I may be wrong though....just a suggestion
>
> See ya later,
> Jaime Banse
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:49 PM
> Subject: 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
> >
> >
> >