RE: First Light.

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Original poster: "CajunCoiler" <cajuncoiler@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Perhaps you could snag some cheap copper-clad
blanks, and a bottle of ferric chloride, and
make your own board... the traces will be as
far apart (or as close) as you want. :)
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> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:18 AM
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> Subject: First Light.
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> Original poster: "Glen McGowan" <glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ran nicely the first try..... But it only ran breifly. The perfboard
> I used for my terry's filter was the type with the copper solder pads
> around each hole. I figured this might be a problem but decided to go
> ahead anyway. Well, it bit me.... The coil ran for about five minutes
> then an arc from the two HV inputs on the perfboard carbon tracked
> across the copper solder points. I couldn't get the coil to fire
> after that. The two HV inputs would short before they even made it to
> the spark gaps. I couldn't come up with a quick fix so I decided to
> tear it down for the evening. I may end up cutting the perfboard in
> half and mounting them seperatly.  I  took a couple not so clean
> video clips which are encoding at the moment.
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> I'm too tired to go over the other issues I noticed. I'll tackle
> these on another post.
>
> Thanks for everyones help. There is no way to describe that scary
> rush you feel right as you apply power to the coil for the first
> time. I'll post a pic and clip tomorrow.
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