RE: tesla coil does not work...

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

What value are the bleeder resistors on your MMC?
Have you actually measured them or did you go by the color code.

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> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:46 PM
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> Subject: tesla coil does not work...
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> Original poster: "Langer Giv'r" <transworldsnowboarding19@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> hello, Ive been working on my tesla coil for 6 months now, and i just
> plugged it in today.  I was expecting to see nothing until i properly
> tuned it but i didnt see anything at all no matter what i did.  I
> tapped the primary everywhere, i switched the cap and spark gap from
> paralell to series and what not and tried everything but nothing
> worked...  I was really dissapointed because i spent about $350 on
> it.  The most confusing part is when i just run my spark gap on my
> xfrmr, i can draw it quite long, but when i wire up the entire tesla
> coil, the spark gap goes about 0.5 millimeters...  how is this
> possible?  what am i doing wrong?  please help!  Here are my specs:
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> xfrmr - 10KV OBIT 23mA
> spark gap - multi static spark gap
> Cap - 2 strings of 12  CDE  942C 0.068 2KVDC caps   total of 11.3nF
> (LTR) at 24KV
> Primary - 10mm copper tubing, 11 turns for primary
> Secondary - 1350 turns 26AWG magnetic wire with 10 coats of
> polyethylene sealant
> safety spark gap to ground, properly set.
> 3 inch diameter toroid.
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> When i turn it on, the spark gap fires on a very short distance, and
> i smell something burning, but I dont think its my transformer
> because it still works...  I am seeing absolutely NOTHING on my
> secondary, so i think my capacitors might have something wrong with
> them.  Help would be increadible, thanks!
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