Re: Secondary Coil nips

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Original poster: "Brian Foley" <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com> 

Well if you try to pick up my tall coil and its less than 6 ft from the
short coil running, it has about 2 inches of spark from one end to the
other! it is a bit like holding a tiger by the tail(watch out for the bite)
cul brian
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Subject: Re: Secondary Coil nips


> Original poster: Pyrotrons-at-aol-dot-com
>
> An interesting way to get shocked (mildly)...
>
> While a TC is running, reach over and pick up a secondary coil that's
lying
> on the benchtop or something.
>
> !!!
>
> Aron was running the old 4.5" system, and I decided to pick up one of our
> little secondaries (1.5" x 6" or so...my first) and, WOW did i drop that
> sucker fast!
>
> The coil's are totally different in every respect (4.5" x 21" vs. 1.5" x
6"),
> but the field density around the 4.5" was still high enough to excite the
> smaller coil, in hand, 6 feet away. It must've been tuned on a harmonic
> somewhere, judging by the stout little pulses. That is before it got
> dropped/thrown ; )
>
> What a great list. A fascinating subject, and always a wealth of
meaningful
> information about it.
>
> Impressive coil Finn - that's really something.
>
> Justin Hays
> KC5PNP
> Email: pyrotrons-at-aol-dot-com
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