First light - NOTHING HAPPENED!

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Original poster: "Robert by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <obiwan1186-at-sunflower-dot-com>

Bad results on the first light of my 4" coil. here's the specs

secondary - 4" pvc wound with 850 turns of 22 guage wire and sealed with
polyurithane. sealed off with lexan discs. heavily grounded with 5, 15"
sections of copper pipe pounded into soaking wet ground and wired in
parallel.

primary - 8" inner diameter - 13 turns of 1/4" copper tubing spaced 1/4"
apart on lexan supports

spark gap - RQ/TCBOR gap with 7 gaps, 1/2" copper pipe.

capacitor - 1 2L soda bottle with salt water on the inside and the
outside.

topload - 2 pie pans bolted back-to-back and 4" aluminum dryer ducting.

power supply - 15/30 NST

I turned on the power and heard the spark gap firing but no sparks were
breaking out at the top. i checked again to make sure i had it wired
correctly, and it still didn't work. i tried getting 1" strikes to a
grounded rod, still nothing. i then attempted to tune it by tapping into
the primary at various locations. still nothing. i then tapped into
other gaps in the RQ gap and tinkered with the primary to no avail. I
then checked my tranny to make sure it hadn't fried but it worked
perfectly. I decided to give up when it started raining, and i thought
"rain+high voltage=ZZZZAAAAP" . Can anyone please tell me why it is not
working??!!!