RE: Still getting strange / poor results.

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Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>


Simon -

Try entering your coil's parameters into the JHCTES Ver 3.2 computer program
to find the primary turns you need. This program can be run on line or
downloaded (Ver 3.1) at my web site

    Http://home.att-dot-net/~couturejh

I would be interested in what you find.

John Couture

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Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 3:09 PM
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Subject: Still getting strange / poor results.


Original poster: "Simon Yorkston by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <quantumx-at-ozemail-dot-com.au>

Hi all.
Well, I rewound my secondary, and hooked it up to the coil, and fired up,
and to be honest, I didn't get much improvment- [maybe about 1-2" longer].
The coupling was a little loose, so I rewound it closer. Then the strange
things started happening [again]. I could only just get breakout if I tapped
the primary as far as it would go - 17+ turns.

What is going on with this coil to make it defy calculations, and give poor
results? I've rebuilt everything on this coil.
The only thing that is left is: the transformer [doesn't seem to be
dead..when they die, do they lose perfomance, or do they just die w/ smoke
etc]
                                             : the protection filter. [As
per Terry's, but with a MMR of 4x3K 11W resistors on each hot]

I have ordered some more capacitors to boost the tank up from 0.0062 to
~0.01; IS that what will make a BIG difference?

Thanks all.
Simon