Re: Newbie with a few questions...

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Mike,

I get a tune point around 6 turns so you should be fine tuning wise after
all.  All I can think of is that the salt watter caps are pretty lossy.
Everything else sounds fine so I really can't see what whould cause the
short streamers.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 11:06 PM 4/10/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>>
>>Hi Mike,
>>
>>Sounds like the tuning is way way off.
>
>Well, I'm by no means done messing with the tuning. But I'll give you
>the specs and hopefully you can tell me if I've done something terribly
>wrong. :)
>
>Secondary is 2" PVC with a 10" winding length of 28 gauge magnet wire.
>Wound with no spacing, using Bart Anderson's Java TC designer and
>assuming thin ins. and .0005" between winds I get 662 turns.
>( +/- who knows? )
>The toroid is 8.5" with a 3" cord. ( I believe it might be too big as I
>get better breakout with an empty can of Coors Light screwed on the top)
>I won't be able to measure my primary cap until next week. I estimate
>right now it's set somewhere between .008-.009 uF, but I have them (lame
>SW beer bottles types) set up so I can reduce the capacitance easily by
>raising them out of the outer electrolyte.
>Primary is 8 turns of .25" copper tubing, inner diameter is 4", .5"
>center to center spacing, outside diameter is about 1'.
>The spark gap is a scaled down Gary Lau type sucker gap, (currently
>without a sucker) and has brass electrodes adjustable from about .1-.5"
>All connections are fairly solid and the wire I used is 18 gauge silver-
>coated, and rated for 30KVDC. I am hoping this isn't too thin?
>
>>Sorry for all the questions but they are needed to determine the 
>> >frequencies.
>
>Not at all, thanks again for all your help.
>
>with regards,
>_Mike
>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>	Terry
>
>
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