Re: First Light.

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

I'm just gonna cut the mother in half. Faster than dealing with the 
lead times on new components.

On 10/8/06, Tesla list <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" 
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Hi Glen,

Get a piece of scrap acrylic sheet from your local plastics store and
drill the holes for the components and use the component leads to hookup.

Gerry R.

>Original poster: "Glen McGowan" 
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>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.
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>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.
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