Re: Hello from The Newbie

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Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Wow, 42" at 550watts !  My coil must be crap! , Im gettin up to 48" at 2kva 
(approx ) maybe you can help ! I am planning on rewinding with smaller wire 
soon,...................

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Hello from The Newbie
>Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:14:21 -0700
>
>Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>3
>1/4 inch
>od white pvc 24 inches long is enough. second
>.
>My coil this size is running 550 watts from a 9 kv 60 ma
>transformer, i have
>hit 42 inches using the coils described. you can use this coil set
>up to a
>1000 watts easily. one of my young friends has this coil set, runs a
>pair of
>bug killer transformers and gets 14 inches of arc. probably only 200
>watts...
>Also find the Tesla Coil books written by many on this list.
>cul brian f.