Re: Table Top Tesla Coil competition rules and website

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi All,
        I designed the system I will use to enter the competition 
during a few idle moments last night. Computer programs and SPICE 
simulations did not participate. I am fortunate in that winding yet 
another secondary will not be necessary. I had two possible 
candidates which fitted certain design criteria sitting in racks 
around the walls of my shed. I'm glad I saw fit to measure and 
document the characteristics of all my resonators some years ago as I 
was able to simply leaf through the pages looking for those I 
required. The chosen coil simply best fitted the design requirements. 

      Low powered tests showed not much between the two coils but a 
consideration of the desirable characteristics of the primary showed 
one to be a clear winner. Interestingly, this secondary had fallen 
out of favour with me some time ago but I'm now glad I was moved to 
wind it at the time. It was one of many wound for a specific range of 
tests about seven to eight years ago. Unfortunately, I don't have a 
suitable primary lying around so I will have to wind that. The 
primary cap will be a MMC and the transformer will be the 5kV/30mA 
with no modifications.

     It will be a while before I get the primary done as I have much 
else on my plate right now but I decided to let it be known that work 
is in progress.

     Note to Paul Nicholson and other TSSP participants: since this 
will be the first coiling I've done for a long time, I will also take 
advantage of the opportunity to replicate the "pre-breakout" 
phenomena. I will build sufficient flexibility into the primary coil 
to allow suitable terminals to be used for this purpose so it's 
probably just as well that I do have to wind one.

Regards,
Malcolm