Re: assorted questions

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

It is posible to get different color streamers with small samples of
different salt solutions on your toroid. To get a high voltage in the
secondary you must have a large turns ratio. If you used foil on your
secondary you would have 10 turns of primary and 1 turn of secondary or
about 1/10 0f your input. With 10 turns of primary and 1000 turns of
secondary you can get 100 x your input or more. With 15kv input X 1.414 you
have about 22kv of peak voltage across your capacitor + resonant peaking. I
build for twice that. You would get nothing at radio shack to serve your
neads. That is why every one goes to great lengths to build or buy good
quality capacitors that will stand the high voltage and high current surges.
Capacitor failier is a common problem. People use copper tubing primary to
stand current of over 100 amps out of the capacitor when the spark fires.
   Robert  H  

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> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:45:07 -0700
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> Subject: assorted questions
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> is there any way to get another color of streamers from my TC? i was thinking
> witish, blue maby? but, now that i think about it, you probally coulden't.
> Also, this is either a really good question or a really bad one. it seems to
> me
> that for your secondary, you could just wrap foil or metal of some sort
around
> your pipe. instead of using really small wire. would this work? i am again
> thinking probally not since i have never herd of it being done. What kind of
> caps do i need for my 15kv transformer (the name that i could ask for at
radio
> shack and they would actually know what i am talking about).
> Ok, well, thanks a lot
> Adam
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