Re: Jonathon's 6" Coil (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:43:54 -0500
From: resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Jonathon's 6" Coil (fwd)



Nice to hear you have your coil running properly.

BTW, 46 inch streamers represent around 240 kV in Tesla coil service.

Resonance Research Corp.
www.resonanceresearch.com


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Subject: Jonathon's 6" Coil (fwd)


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> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:11:05 -0400
> From: Jonathon Reinhart <jonathon.reinhart@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Jonathon's 6" Coil
>
> Hello everyone.  I read the post about people maybe not giving updates on
> their projects, etc. so I thought I'd give a little feedback.
>
> Some of you have heard about, and some of you helped (thanks!) get my coil
> started a few years back, and a little bit of help lately with my RSG.
> Almost a year ago, before I went to school I built with the help of my 
> dad,
> a pretty decent SRSG.   A week or two ago, I got it hooked up, after
> doubling my tank cap from 17nf  to 34uf.
>
> At first, my results were quite disappointing.  I was getting plenty of
> bright sparks at the SRSG, but absolutely no output from the coil, which I
> had tuned to its previous (Segmented SSG) sweet spot.   I played and 
> played
> with the rotation of the motor, but got nothing.  I was starting to get
> worried, concerned that I had possibly blown one of my caps due to the 
> SRSG
> being out-of-phase.
>
> Getting frustrated and ready to go inside for the night, I grabbed my
> primary tap and threw it on about 1/2 way in.  Keep in mind this primary 
> is
> only about 10-11 turns anyway.  Turned off the lights, and threw the 
> switch
> for my coil.  Hey!  About 4 inches of breakout.  So I knew it was just a
> matter of fiddling with it.  After playing and playing with the SRSG and 
> the
> primary coil, I had set a new personal record for streamer length of 46" 
> to
> a (poorly) grounded point.  This only beat my previous record of 44 by two
> inches, but hey it's progress.
>
> Points for improvement have been noted, however.  When adjusting the SRSG, 
> I
> keep getting longer and longer streamers, but then the safety gaps start
> firing.  I believe I have them set too conservatively far in.  I think I
> will open them up some.  Also, my topload is 4" aluminum dryer duct around
> standard-sized pie pans.  I have some 6" aluminum flexible duct work (HVAC
> style) that is more ridgid, and longer, so I can stretch it out around a
> larger  pizza-sized pie pan.
>
> Glad to be playing with ~0.75MV again :-)
>
> Jonathon
>
>
>