Re: What now? I'm new

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Cornell-Dublier MMC style caps are the best way to go --- the glass 
dielectric eats up approx 20% (or more) of your input power in 
heating losses and generates excessive ozone that can be carcinogenic 
in large quantities --- and glass caps make large quantities of it.

JAVATC from Bart Anderson is an amazing and totally FREE design 
program for Tesla coils.  It works to within approx 1% accuracy and 
will allow you to enter many "what-if" scenario values for your 
coil.  Set coeff. of coupling, k, to approx 0.16 to 0.18 for a great 
performing coil.  JAVATC will allow you to enter all of your present 
coil parameters and give you the correct answers.

I will also offer you a completely free design for a great coil 
producing 42 inch (107 cm) sparks if you can rustle up a 12 kV, 60 mA 
nst.  Contact me off-list and I can email you the design and photographs.

Dr. Resonance



> I'm new to this list and new to Tesla Coils in general. So I think I 
> should introduce myself first (I don't know if it's common on this 
> list to do so.)
> I'm Ruben and 17 years old, I'm from the Netherlands. I'm currently 
> doing my sixth and final year of secondary school. In this year I 
> have to work on a project (for the Dutch on this list: it is my 
> 'profielwerkstuk'). This project has to be good before I can start 
> my exams. I was free to pick any subject I liked, after some 
> brainstorming I thought Tesla Coils would be a interesting subject, 
> and probably a cool new hobby too :-)