Re: tesla coil

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

In a message dated 1/4/01 6:44:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< 
    I suspect tuning is the cause of almost all of the failures I have read
 about here.  The formulae for calculating inductance and resonant
 frequency are so simple (grade school arithmetic) that I can't see any
 excuse for not checking that the primary will give the right frequency
 with whatever size capacitor is available.
 
 Ed
  >>

Ed,

I agree wholeheartedly.  I don't know why anyone would even fire up a Tesla 
coil, after spending the required time and money to construct one without 
first doing the math do insure the primary and secondary will tune properly.  
I really don't even know how you could design and build one without going 
through these steps.

Ed Sonderman