Re[2]: Correction: It's Me Again

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

Hi Ryan,

At 12:33 PM 1/7/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>	Yes, I am getting a very healthy spark at the gap.  There is a possibility
>that the primary and secondary are not in tune.  Could the effects of the
>primary and secondary systems being out of tune cause such a severe effect
>that the Tesla coil produces no more than 2-3" sparks?  Wow.
>
>	Ryan Ries
>

You betcha!!  5Kw in with 3 inch "streamers" could definitly be caused by
serious primary/secondary miss-tuning.  You can use the many computer
programs, equations, or tell of your primary and secondary turns,
dimensions, ect. and we can figure out the primary tap point.

The following data will allow us to figure it all out:

Primary cap value:
Primary coil inner diameter:
Distance between turns on primary coil (center to center):
Number of available turns on primary coil:
Diameter of secondary coil:
Length of secondary coil:
Wire size or number of turns on secondary coil:
Dimensions of top terminal:

That data should get us pretty close and I can guess at the rest...

Cheers,

	Terry