Re: Biggg Coil running again

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Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>

Hi Kevin 

Direct access to the vertical deflection plates, WOW! good idea,
I'll modified my old Tektronix model 310.

Tx for the idea,
Cheers,

Luc Benard

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Kevin R Eldredge by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kreld-at-juno-dot-com>
> 
> All
> 
>   The Bigg Coil was disassembled last Fall waiting for its new home where
> it can be perminantly assembled & ready to fire at a moments notice.   At
> last a Tesla Coil "hanger" was built this last several weeks measuring
> 10' wide x 10' deep x 16' tall with two 15' doors.  Features include an
> electric hoist on the rafters to work on the Coil & a work loft at 12'
> for maintainance on the toroid.  It takes 5 minutes to roll out its 24'
> runway and wire up.
> 
>   Of coarse it was tested Saturday with less than favorable conditions,
> like a 7 to 10 mph wind.  Still it gave respectable 22' arcs to the
> hanger.   With the wind, the arcs wout start on the windward side of the
> 8' toroid, hit the ground, and rotate 180 degrees on the ground to the
> opposite side then break up,  another arc would start and repeat again.
> 
>   The 120 bps rotary had some arc follow around when wired in series with
> the vacuum static gap using 2 gaps.  I increased it to all 5 gaps, and
> output dropped to nill.   The static gap was bypassed all together, and
> rotary follow around stopped, the output arcs brightened nicely.
> 
>   I am planning on installing a resistive voltage divider to take voltage
> measurments accross the capacitor and transformer outputs.  This would be
> tied directly to the vertical deflection plates of an old tube type
> scope.  Any suggestions on this idea are welcome.  The scope has already
> been modified for direct vertical inputs.
> 
> Coiling in Oklahoma
> 
> Kevin E.
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