Hi Doug!
This post might also fit the "where is everybody" post, as I am one of
those long-time lurkers as well. I've been gathering parts to build
various tesla coils, and through ignorance have a pile of GF NSTs thinking
that I could use them for small tesla coils, until I too read that they
wouldn't work. Although I have most of the parts for my first spark gap
TC, I also have Goodchild's UD2.5 boards and LoneOceans MIDI interrupter
board (I know, I know, I'm supposed to make the spark gap one first, but
it's hard for me to stay on one task (o:)
I would like to build a multiple TC art installation along the lines of my
flame kalliope ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8sDM2_J9J8 ) so if you
could be so kind as to provide as much detail of your GF NST TC circuitry
and layout as possible, I would greatly appreciate it!
I'm recently retired and am looking for ways to get kids interested in
STEM, and I'm finding the best way is to put on a show to "suck them in"
(o: And I got a young man coming over to help build my coils, so we can
pass the knowledge baton!
Thanks!
Dirk
Las Vegas, NV
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:22 PM Douglas Johnson <doug379306@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I had a 6K GF NST laying around and decided to see if I could use it on a
> small TC. I ran a 1K 25w210 wire wound resistor between each leg of the NST
> and the safety gap, it worked just fine. I switched the GF 6kv NST with a
> non GF 6kv nst and the coil output was identical.
> I was always told that a GF NST would not work for a TC??
> Resistors are holding up ok.
> Comments please
> Doug
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