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Re: Basic Questions that I Know if I Would Think About It...

Hi Ryan,

	Everything sounds like you need to add capacitance.  Perhaps twice or
maybe 3 times what you have now.  You could also lower the frequency by
adding primary turns but I think you would have to add more turns which
would be harder than getting more caps.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 06:42 PM 03/17/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>	Well, the new pictures of the Veretus coil are being developed.  We have
>replaced our old coil with a new 8" (9.5" OD)) secondary with 34" of
>21-gauge winding.  The primary is 16 turns.  We are using MMC caps right
>now, which have a capacitance of about .01µf.  However, we have plenty of
>saltwater caps ready to be used just in case.  What the problem is, though,
>is that we cannot get it to break out of any toroid, even a small
>corrugated one.   (Well, we get very tiny sparks anywway.)  When we take
>the toroid off, we can acheive great several foot sparks from the piece of
>magnet wire coming from the top of the secondary.  As far as tuning goes,
>we have already slid the primary tap all the way out to end of the 16
>turns.  From the way I figure, the secondary is probably too tall.  Thus,
>the secondary self-capacitance is too high and frequency is too low.  (Or
>something to that effect. :-)  Please tell me if this sort of problem may
>be fixed by changing the value of our primary capacitor, tuning inward on
>the primary instead of out toward the edge like I thought, or shortening
>the secondary. (Don't know if that one will work. :))  Thanks,
>		
>		-- Ryan
>