Re: Sonderman's continuing saga

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Subject: Re: Sonderman's continuing saga
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:04:44 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 15:37:38 -0400
From: Thomas McGahee <tom_mcgahee-at-sigmais-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Sonderman's continuing saga

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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> Subject: Sonderman's continuing saga
> Date: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 12:27 AM
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> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:52:35 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
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> Subject: Sonderman's continuing saga
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> I was looking at my coil tonight 

SNIP

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> Comments??
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> Ed Sonderman

Ed,
I don't think the ground lead is your problem.

Have you checked the primary for shorts? A shorted primary turn will
suck up energy like mad while still allowing the coil to be "tuned"
and "work", but with greatly reduced output. Sometimes when I am
changing tap points I will accidentally short a turn, and the effects
are immediately evident. Also, the voltage between primary turns can
be pretty high, and once in the bad old days when I was using wood
separators I had a burn short develop via the separator. This
"partial" short was not immediately visible because it was internal
to the wood. I finally noticed it when I spotted a little wisp of
smoke at the primary after a long run.

Just a thought.
Fr. Tom McGahee