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Re: [TCML] New Torroid
Hi Tony,
That's a nice, clean looking coil... and its throwing some very mean
looking sparks!
Some potential suggestions:
Reduce the overall height of the system by reducing the length of the
bottom legs. This will give you more top clearance to reduce strikes to
the ceiling, conduit, plumbing, or (heaven forbid) fire, burglar alarm,
or loose CAT5 wiring.
If the toroid is too high (versus the secondary), you may develop a
conical region of "Christmas tree" corona between the top of the
secondary winding and the primary that can stimulate secondary:primary
strikes or racing sparks along the secondary. Try reducing the height of
the main toroid, increasing its diameter, or add a smaller (15 - 20"
diameter) field grading toroid between the secondary and existing
toroid. These measures will reduce the E-field gradient seen by the top
of the secondary, increase effective shielding, and help throw streamers
outward, and away, from the primary.
In one picture it looks like you may be using a large alligator clip as
a primary tap on the top side of the primary. This can be a tempting
target for streamers or even strikes from the upper portion of the
secondary winding. Try tapping from below if you have sufficient space.
In any event, minimize projecting height of the tap above of the primary
winding so that you maintain a smooth E-field at the primary's top
surface.
Good luck and best wishes,
Bert
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Sfxneon@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hello everyone,
I finally got around to taking and uploading some pictures today of the coil
that I have been working on. This is just how it looks now during the beta
testing and mobilization phase to make it portable and easy to set up. My shop
is located in the Depot Entertainment District in downtown Lubbock Texas,
and it has certainly been entertaining for all the neighbors!
Take a look-see if you are interested, and I welcome all comments and
suggestions. There's also a short 20 second (5Mb) MPEG 1 video clip at the end of
it in action if you want to watch or download.
http://ImageEvent.com/thepacratz/teslacoil/8inchcoil
Tony Greer
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