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Re: qualifications



Original poster: Terry Fritz <terrellfone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: Jim <branley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Folks:

I appreciate your concern about my qualifications to build a tesla coil.
I feel 50% qualified and with your help I might be 100% qualified.
I am a licensed electrical contractor 17.5 years now. I do industrial, commercial & residential electrical construction & service work. My Dad worked for IBM for 33 years and had me tinkering with electronics as a child.

Can someone /recommend/ a good conductive tape for my toroid. (I have hvac silver duct tape) and I've gone to Lowes' plumbing department for conductive tape but to no avail. My question also is, does the adhesive portion of the tape have conductive properties?

Thank you for your assistance and concern!
Jim
Hi Jim,

Just use aluminum foil duct/vent tape. It is thick aluminum foil with a sticky backing:

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=154789-133-154789&lpage=none

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=95192-133-95192&lpage=none

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=40999-133-40999&lpage=none

It has to be wrapped on the vent duct joints here by code now (guess how I know that ;-))

At 300,000 volts, the thin layer of adhesive "disappears" ;-)) Although the current flows mostly through capacitance as displacement currents through it rather than conduction. But it will work perfectly fine.

http://members.tm.net/lapointe/Toroid.htm

http://home.austin.rr.com/teslafun/Tesla_toroids.htm

http://www.teslaboys.com/Tesla05/T05Power/index.html

Cheers,

Terry