[TCML] I guess that's 'first light'...

[bunnykiller]

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.
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>Cleaned the inside with alcohol, made sure not to get alcohol on the
>coil. 
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>Removed the metal connector on the top and replaced it with a nylon
>bolt, relocated the top of coil to outside the form.
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>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. 
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>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. But
>it's working! 
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>Now I can start to get it optimized...
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>Steve
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