Hey Steve...best to run the coil in a dark enviroment for effective streamer length testing... do you have access to a dark garage or room? If so do it... if not, set up for a night time run... if you saw 12" in the daylight you were probably getting 18+ in actuality... the faint ends of the streamers are difficult to see in daylight. Option 2 is to set up a grounded rod as a strike hit point and measure the distance from toroid to rod. You will know a hit when the streamer goes from blue-ish to white and wants to hang there for a few seconds...
I have run my smaller coils in the day time and only to see 24" of streamers but at night the same coil will produce streamers up to 40"....
Scot D Stephen J. Hobley wrote:
OK I sanded the inside of the coil - did not remove all of the trace but abou 90% - I will work on this again later. Cleaned the inside with alcohol, made sure not to get alcohol on thecoil.Removed the metal connector on the top and replaced it with a nylon bolt, relocated the top of coil to outside the form. I ran the coil again for about 30 seconds with no evidence of streamers, then checked inside the form to see if there was any fresh scoring -there was none.Re-adjusted the primary tap and got 12" streamers coming off the top. Difficult to say how long they really were as it was sunny outside. Butit's working!Now I can start to get it optimized... Steve _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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