Re: Hehe, This is coo coo! Was "I give up!"

["Malcolm Watts" <M.J.Watts-at-massey.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

On 22 Aug 00, at 11:43, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Garry F." <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net> 
> 
> After getting it tuned last night and fiddling with it and getting weak
> streamers and a week sounding spark gap, but some progress. I turned it off.
>  
> I get up this morning and I turn it on and fair sized streamers come out all
> over the toroid and the spark gap has a snap to it again. 
>  
> I didn't change a thing since the night before, I *swear* I didn't! Well,
there
> is one thing different. I held my jaw in a different position. Could that be
> it? Maybe the fillings in my teeth are detuning and retuning the tesla coil?
> Who knows? 

Sounds like something changed. Humidity? Perhaps the 
transformer is intermittently tracking internally?

Malcolm