Re: Correction: It's Me Again

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

Hi Ryan,

Are your SURE the primary and secondary are tuned to the same frequency and
not some harmonic?  If you are getting big sparks at the gap and all, there
really isn't too much else that could be wrong.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 09:19 AM 1/7/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>	I apologize for my last post, I was really not thinking right.  (As I
>mentioned, it had been a couple months since we had looked at the coil). 
>Anyway, right when I woke up this morning, I realized that huge capacitance
>I was talking about was a matched capacitance for the transformer, and not
>really what we were shooting for at all.  So now we have to find what else
>could be the problem.  The ballasting is two microwave oven transformers in
>series.  This seems to be the general consensus on the list about what is
>the best ballast (for the money).  The spark gap is a single static
>air-blast spark gap with brass electrodes.  This is a bad gap for a pole
>pig I know, but it should still be able to get SOME spark out of the coil. 
>The primary and secondary coils are beautiful, so I'm a bit vexed here as
>to what could be our problem.  I realize pole pigs are totally different
>beasts than NST's, so I'm trying to be patient. :)
>
>	Thanks again,
>	   Ryan Ries
>