Cold Weather Performance...

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• Subject: Cold Weather Performance...
• From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
• Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 18:47:35 -0800

All,

Has anyone else noticed any significant performance improvement
with colder weather on Tesla Coils? I know VDG's love winter. My 10"
coil is in an unheated porch, and temperatures are now getting into the
20's and 30's in the evening. I've noticed that my coil now seems to run
significantly better now than during warmer weather (better breakout,
longer and louder streamers...). 

I suspect part of it has to do with the air being dryer, and the maybe
the PVC form is less "leaky". The gaps also seem to be firing at a
higher voltage now, so maybe this is part of it. I also had to tweak my
tuning a bit, so I think my homemade caps drifted a little.

Asking those with experience, does this mean it'll work _really_ well at
-25 degrees?? Hmm.. maybe I need to move to a more northerly
climate!...!  :^)

Safe sparkin' to ya!

-- Bert --

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