First Light.

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Original poster: "Glen McGowan" <glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>

Ran nicely the first try..... But it only ran breifly. The perfboard 
I used for my terry's filter was the type with the copper solder pads 
around each hole. I figured this might be a problem but decided to go 
ahead anyway. Well, it bit me.... The coil ran for about five minutes 
then an arc from the two HV inputs on the perfboard carbon tracked 
across the copper solder points. I couldn't get the coil to fire 
after that. The two HV inputs would short before they even made it to 
the spark gaps. I couldn't come up with a quick fix so I decided to 
tear it down for the evening. I may end up cutting the perfboard in 
half and mounting them seperatly.  I  took a couple not so clean 
video clips which are encoding at the moment.


I'm too tired to go over the other issues I noticed. I'll tackle 
these on another post.

Thanks for everyones help. There is no way to describe that scary 
rush you feel right as you apply power to the coil for the first 
time. I'll post a pic and clip tomorrow.