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Re: Outside testing
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To: tesla@grendel.objinc.com, KLINEDA@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu, QUANTUM@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu, WMEYER@scientia.up.ac.za, bhaley@shore.net, frerichs@zfe.siemens.de, froula@cig.mot.com, haba@snakemail.hut.fi, jetter@ix.netcom.com, scott@csustan.csustan.edu
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Subject: Re: Outside testing
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From: Esondrmn@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 16:59:36 -0400
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In a message dated 95-10-03 14:06:13 EDT, tesla@grendel.objinc.com writes:
>Subject: Re: Outside testing
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>> All of a sudden a massive bolt broke out from the
>> center of the secondary to the primary strike shield. I turned the
>> power off and refired it. It is difficult to get it to run without
>breakouts
>> happening from the coil itself. I even had the safety gap fire once.
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>> What is happening here? Too much power?
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>I don't know if it's the same thing that I experienced at my much lower
>1kVA level, but I was having the same sort of problem (discharges from
>the middle of the secondary) until I raised my secondary up to loosen
>the coupling. When I did that, the spark-over stopped and I actually
>gained two inches or so of spark length.
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>
>Steven Roys (sroys@radiology.ab.umd.edu)
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Steven,
I originally experienced serious corona and breakdown problems between the
primary and the secondary until I raised the secondary up 3.0". This fixed
it. I don't know what's happening now.
Ed Sonderman