MAN16.JPG A picture of the 6.5" secondary PVC pipe before it was wound. On top of that you can see the isolator wich later carry the toroid discharge terminal. At the bottom is the 10 turn primary. MAN19.JPG A closeup of the primary. It's constructed of 5/16 inch copper pipe spaced about 7/16 inch. The whole winding is angled at about 8 degrees. This was the original primary, i have added six more turns since then to experiment with. MAN20.JPG The back of my transformer bank. It consists of six 4kV/45mA neon- transformers wired in series and paralell to a total output of 8kV/135mA. They have worked really well though the low voltage i think. MAN18.JPG This is me standing next to the unfinished coil. MAN14.JPG Here i'm painting the number "2" to one of my two newly aquired 2kVA polepigs (10kV/220mA). This shot was taken at the transformer supply at the back of our local powerplant. The big ones in the back are ranging from 50-500 kVA 3 phase. Mine looks kinda small in comparison. =) MAN15.JPG Remounting the isolator of my 4.5kVA polepig(10kV/450mA) after a check. As soon i have enough funding to buy some current limiting equipment i will begin using these instead of my neontrannies. MAN17.JPG My buddy Stefan Emanuelsson doing some calculations. He gets so bored doing the practical side of my coil project so he often sit on a chair reading a magazine or in this case do some math while i run around and do the practical stuff. MAN3.JPG This was one of the first tests i did after my TC was complete. A small 1 foot arc jumps over to a grounded aluminum plate. I had to use a small wire to get any sparks to break out. It was fairly out of tune in this test. MAN4.JPG A complete closeup of my system. In the front the RQ gap consisting of 7 electrodes. At this test i used only six of them and had compressed air to quench/cool it. To the left of the gap is my poly cap. When it was rolled and measured before immersed in oil the capacitance was 26.5nF. When i finally sealed it in the pvc pipe and filled with oil the capacitance had changed to 29.6nF, wich gave me a cap too big for my primary. I'm off building two 10nF caps at the moment. At the back is the coil itself. You can see behind the cap that i has connected the last turn of the primry to the strike rail to give me an extra turn to tune with.I added one more turn so i had a total of 12 turns before i went on and rebuilt my primary. The secondary consists of 1000 turns of 22 AWG wire closely wound. On top is my toroid wich had not been completely covered with aluminumstrips. I will complete it any day now. The spark jumping to the aluminum plate on the left is about 1+ feet. It looks shorter due to the angle the photo is taken. MAN13.JPG Same as above but a different angle. The piece of plastic stuck between the pri. and sec. was to prevent arcing due to a bad solder. MAN5.JPG to MAN8.JPG 1+ foot spark showing that it doesn't always take the shortest way. MAN10.JPG A nice shot of a spark about 3 feet to air. MAN12.JPG Same as above but with a pice of wire to direct the spark. It was about 3 foot long. MAN11.JPG Having fun with a 4 foot fluorecent lamp. MAN9.JPG Is this the correct way to light a fluorecent lamp??? =) MAN2.JPG A nice shot taken with a little longer exposure time, and a fluorecent lamp on top of the toroid. MAN1.JPG This is the best performance of the coil i have got so far. The strikes darting of to the right is 4 foot long and the sound was wonderful(A bit loud though). Some corona can be seen on top of the secondary revealing the wire connecting the sec. and toroid. //Matt