RE: First light for my first coil today !

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Original poster: Brett Miller <brmtesla2-at-yahoo-dot-com> 


Ian,

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Ian McLean"
 > <ianmm-at-optusnet-dot-com.au>
 >
 > Hi Brett,
 >
 > It's kinda funny you mentioning this, because I had
 > the same idea ;)  After
 > I made the toroid, I thought, "Hey, if this was a
 > little smaller, it would
 > make an ideal anti-corona ring".  Once I make my
 > proper toroid, I think I
 > will do this, except wrap it up with aluminium tape
 > instead of foil so it
 > comes out neater.  I guess great minds think alike
 > ...

Maybe so.  However, I didn't get any corona or
"sparkles" on mine.  Although most of the time I have
run it as an ACR, and not a main toroid, so I would
guess that the presence of the upper toroid sheilds
the ACR from the tendancy to produce corona.

I was forced to run this "noodle" as a solo topload a
couple weeks ago.  A friend who is planning on
constructing a 3.5" TC brought a 15/30 NST which we
decided to try out using half my MMC and the noodle as
a topload.  Unfortunately we weren't able to retune
with the other toroid because I didn't have enough
primary turns.  I need to take another look at that
video and see if there was anything like you
described.

-Brett

 >
 > Rgs
 > Ian
 >
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