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Re: More real experiments



>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:28:14 -0800
>From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: More real experiments
>
[I said]
>> What is the minimum size that you have obtained air discharges from?
>> 
[Richard said]
>We once had a contest in our group (1990) to see how small we could make 
>one of these things and I beleive that Bill Richards or our group may 
>hold the record with a coil wound on a coathanger cardboard tube ~1/2 
>diameter about 3 inches long wound with #54 wire.  He used a bug zapper 
>xfrmer (~5kv -at-2ma) for a 1" or 2" spark output.

Shirt Pocket TC;) Neat!  I'd hate to have someone mistake it for a
cigarillo though.

>  We have wound many 1" 
>diameter systems about 4" tall in oil and I have made an oil immersed 
>system on a 1" form that was 8" tall wound with #44 wire which gave 12" 
>of spark. 
>
Ah Ha! just about right. Particulars please;) About a 1/6 or 1/8
garage size (to paraphrase chip;)

>  Still, it is always fun to head in the opposite 
>direction from where the madden crowd seems headed.
>
Just a subcategory. I think that everyone here walks to the beat of a
different drummer than most! VIVA LA DIFERRANCE!

>I just recently acquired a roll (2lb) of #64 wire and am itching to wind 
>it on a 20" diameter form I have that is 48" long!
>
I've got to watch you wind this one!

	Regards,

	jim

(still dinking at the 4:1 level)