Re: First Firing since 1999: The Glorious odor...

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

All,

I had Richard over for a visit about 2 years ago - he was at that time
living and working in the Chicago Area for a computer company. Have lost
track of him since then, and I don't know if he's still in the area any
more...

-- Bert --
-- 
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
"Electromagically" Shrunken Coins!
http://www.teslamania-dot-com

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
> 
> Hi Dave,
>           I last spoke with Richard Quick about 2 years ago. Last I
> heard he was buried in computer management.
> 
> Regards,
> malcolm
> 
> On 11 Aug 2002, at 23:04, Tesla list wrote:
> 
> > Original poster: "Dave Hartwick by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ddhartwick-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> >
> > Guys,
> > Circa 1999: The last coiling session. I was firing a 6" system running at
> > ~140 kHZ. I have 8" and 10" secondaries--not enough room. 5kVA Piglet power
> > with a bank of 8 HDPE salt-water caps--.025 ufd total. These caps were
> > replaced with 2 Condenser Products 0.05 ufd, 20 kVAC units--600 clams
worth.
> > A minimal difference was noted switching to the commercial CP caps. I was
> > getting about 50-60" spark with a vigorous air-blast gap. I guess I got
> > discouraged and decided to call it a day for a while. I also decided to
> > allow the dust to collect in 1993 when, in my ignorance, I blew 2 15/120
> > NSTs.
> <snip>