Re: 1080VA coil pics

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Original poster: Bart Anderson <classi6-at-classictesla-dot-com> 

Chris,

Very nice photo! The "racing spark" as you termed it doesn't look like a 
racing spark I'm familiar with. When this occurs, is it always from the 
same area? Maybe you just captured the start of an event. Not sure. Does it 
look like this without the camera?

Bart

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: Chris Roberts <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
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>Hi everybody,
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>I finally got around to taking some photos of my 6" coil. It's taken a 
>while because this is one of the few times everything is working right, 
>(If any of you remember, this is the one that killed 2 geek-cap MMCs, had 
>racing sparks galore, and almost bankrupted me out of coiling >=\  ) and 
>the fact that I had to finally brave the cold and drag the thing out into 
>the snow.
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>This is my favorite picture that I took, because everything is lit right, 
>and although the racing spark on the secondary is a bad thing, (Noooo! I 
>thought I fixed that!!!) it at least looks cool. =D The picture is an f 
>2.8, 5 second exposure while having the coil "painted" with a flashlight. 
>That way the coil itself is lit, while keeping the background dark for the 
>sparks to show up. Sparks are about 3 feet long, but the one going toward 
>the bottom right may be much longer.
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>Here's a high-res version:
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><http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/1080VAmed.JPG>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/1080VAmed.JPG 
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>And for all of you in 56K land, a smaller version:
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><http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/1080VAsm.jpg>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/1080VAsm.jpg 
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>-Chris
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