[TCML] Re:Earth Capacitors

[mddeming at aol.com]

Hi Gary, Gareth, All,

I have to agree that the motivation and some of the terminology is 
unclear.
With a spacing between coils of a few centimeters and a wavelength on
the order of 150 meters I'm at a loss to understand the "smooth wave"
concept.

Matt D


-----Original Message-----
From: Lau, Gary <Gary.Lau at hp.com>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla at pupman.com>
Sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:32 am
Subject: RE: [TCML] Re:Earth Capacitors



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces at pupman.com [mailto:tesla-bounces at pupman.com] On
> Behalf Of kingsandangels at hotmail.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:38 AM
> To: Tesla at www.pupman.com
> Subject: [TCML] Re:Earth Capacitors
>
> Thank Bapt I love to talk alot but normally I can make perfect sense 
of what I
> say!

That would make one of us. As this is largely a technical forum, 
communicating
clearly with accurate spelling would be useful.

> So what you think of my power?

Your what?

> Anyway Ive ordered 2kgs of .8 c200 transformer wire

Is that .8mm dia wire?

> to wind a long 75mm PVC to 1200 turns,should be tall

While there is a lot of wiggle room in secondary dimensions and number 
or turns,
a reasonable goal is to build the secondary with a 5:1 
length-to-diameter ratio,
so yours would be about 375mm long. This would require 375/1200 = 
0.31mm
diameter wire. Using 0.8mm wire would be 960mm long for 1200 turns. It 
would
be perfect if you had 192mm diameter PVC pipe.

> and Im going to use thicker primary coil to make smooth waves onto my
> Tesla Transformer secondary.

Using heavy gauge wire in ones primary is a good thing and is done to 
minimize
primary losses, as the current in the primary is very high. I don't 
think
anyone here is familiar with the terminology of "making smooth waves".

> Also will add another 6 coke bottles! Im excited! And all of you have 
a
> nice day!

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA
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