RE: [TCML] TC Newbie

["Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>]

Gareth, you seem to hold some unconventional and unsupported beliefs.  Comments and questions interspersed:

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> Matt try this,Maybe you coil works but use an earth rod from your RF ground at put
> it near your top of your secondary at see if there is some action due to potential
> difference.If this happens you could try increase the frequency of your spark gap by
> using a solid metal object and putting it in the center of your spark gap to make a
> twin gap then open it wider for voltage

So switching from a single segment gap to two segments will increase the _frequency_ of a spark gap?  I don't believe that I even know what the frequency of a spark gap means.  Are you referring to the break rate?  Changing the spacing of the gap would change the break rate, but one should not set the gap for the sake of increasing the break rate.

> and because the spark has to ironise the air twice
> the frecency is altered and remember to readjust your primary tap point
> because the inductance will also effect the way the gap fires.

Changing just the gap geometry would NOT affect the primary tuning.  And, the inductance or tuning does NOT affect the "way" the gap fires.

> Also try use a sphere
> because like a Van Der Graaf generator it tends to  hold voltage alot better than
> any non commercial torroid or torroid coils that are very well made.Look in your
> toilets for any floats that are made of copper also old hot water 'gesers' I have tried
> aluminium spheres of identical size(Like the ones on flag poles)But copper has
> much better spark performance,

Top load performance is unaffected by choice of materials.  And, odds are that most of us would not choose to render our toilets non-functional for the sake of improving our toploads!

> Also try a plug(Strip the plug and remove one of
> those brass prongs)And stick it on your topload for a breakout point,

Any piece of metal - a nail, scrap of wire, bit of aluminum tape, will perform identically for a breakout point, regardless of copper/brass/aluminum/steel material.

> If plastic caps
> are not working try get 1L glass coke bottles,Pour the water out your plastic 2L
> ones into the glass ones and cook up a fast batch of salt water and fill a container
> with it and put the glass bottles inside the salt water(Same like tinfoil on the
> outside)So you have your dielectric between you two salt waters,And pore alot of
> vinegar into the salt water the spark gap fire will fire much better!

Altering the salt water mixture might only affect the equivalent series resistance ESR of the capacitor, affecting the losses.  But I don't see how the ESR would affect how the spark gap fires.  In what WAY does the gap fire "better"?

> Good Luck Matt!
> Gareth

Gary Lau
MA, USA
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