Re: it works!

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: it works!
• From: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:12:22 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

">I got constant 14"-16" streamers with some
>occassionally going out to 20"ish.  I'm currently running a 12/60 NST,
>.0106 EMMC, 16" 22AWG secondary on 4" PVC.  Toroid is 19" x 4" aluminum.
>My spark gap is a lame set of two bolts.  So now I have some more
>questions:
>
>1) how much improvement would a better SG give me? How about going to a
>15/60 NST? "

	You sure should be getting better streamers than that!  I have a little
3" x 15" coil here, wound with #30 wire, and with a 15" x 3" toroid on
top.  Primary uses 0.009 mfd total of ceramic HV filter capacitors, fed
from a 12 kV, 60 ma transformer.  Get 24"+ streamers, with some a bit
longer; line current is about 5 amps.  Performance is about the same
with a single straight gap or one of TCBOR's cylinder gaps, which I
prefer.  This is a lousy setup, but works reasonable well.

Ed

• Prev: Re: inflatable torroid
• Next: coil pictures and observations
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread