Help A new coiler.................

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Original poster: "margaret louise" <tullera-at-optusnet-dot-com.au> 

Ok, after weeks of interenet surfing i have finally begun work on my first 
coil.
possibly a bad decision, i dont really know, i have wound the secondary first:

2 incch diameter
10.5 inch winding length
approx 880 turns of AWG 29?  wire recycled from an old transformer (about 
84 turns/inch)

i have aquired a 12/30 NST to use
i am plannig to go for a static gap, either series of copper tubes RQ style 
or a bunch of adjustabe single gaps (ie bolts )

1.  CAPACITOR- should i used a standard resonant cap aof about 7.9nf (on 
50hz)?
i have also seen a lot on LTR caps and it seems that they generally make 
the NST last a lot longer and have better performance. Any opinions?

2> Primary
planning to use 1/4 inch copper tubing. is there any real difference or 
benifits of using a inverse conical primary over a pankake, because the 
pancake is going to be a lot easier to make>?

Safety gap> what distance should i set my safety gap to for a 12 kv nst?

finaly does anyone know of any difinitive tesla coil design programs for 
windows i have WIntesla5 but i cant seem to figure out theoutput feilds> 
where does it tell you the primary frequency and what are the LpCp and LsCs 
feilds



excuse my arrogance.............






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