Re: Toroid to primary arcing

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 5/15/03 2:59:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Steve, Jeremy, all,

I have to agree with Jeremy here. I've tried a little of both on my
large pole piggy driven coil. It's really hard to prevent this arcing
when you're pushing 8 to 10 ft. sparks from a coil w/ a 12" X
38.5" long secondary coil :^) Also, my toroid is 9" X 30" and my
primary coil's outer winding is right at 30" wide. I could probably
stop a lot of this if a installed a wider major diametered toroid as
making the primary smaller is not an option  since I'm tuned on
the last turn (# 7).

Sparking in Memphis,
David Rieben

>There are usually two ways to keep this from
>happening, a) install a strike rail, and b)
>raise the toroid.