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Re: [TCML] 4'-5' tesla coil sparks?



Hi Jay,

It has been my observation that there is no one at the museum who knows much of anything about Tesla coils or the rigging of Tesla coils. They have talked about installing a Tesla coil for years and one of the museum directors visited my lab here in Brockport (18 miles from the museum) during a Teslathon several years ago to get an idea of what was involved, but nothing has ever come to fruition. I visited the development warehouse last summer at the request of a friend who helps out there concerning Tesla coil/Van de Graaff generator safety and the response was a bit lackluster, to say the least. The Van de Graaff safety issue arose as a result of the unit that you folks built at RIT.

Another coiler from the Rochester area put on demos at the museum at various times for a year or two using his own equipment. He did not mention if there was any compensation.

I believe that they are looking for donated time and equipment, which is fine, if you are willing. The insurance and liability question is one that I never asked, because things never progressed to that point. Be cautious.

Ed Wingate

On 2/10/2011 12:49 PM, jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for the advice Jim,

Basically I am assisting on the design and getting the parts.
The museum itself is doing all the actual installation and construction. Although i will probably end up helping out with winding the coils and the like. I presume that they know all about rigging and such, they are a reasonably large museum. The only question they could not readily answer was about the RF ground and the grounding of the Faraday cage to eliminate the interference. Is that even possible with a reasonable mesh size. I may take an RF meter and one of my small coils and do some tests just to see how much actually escapes from different types of cages.
My question was, how would running an RF ground the long distance to the actual ground effect coil operation. or could the building structure or lighting grounds be used.


Money is certainly an object, but if spending an extra hundred bucks gets a longer lasting capacitor then it would be in the better interest to go for the better capacitor. The goal is for under 800$.
The museum is very, shall I say independent. They take a lot of pride in the "do it yourself" approach and have a warehouse devoted to the development of exhibits. I have brought up the fact that resonance research can do perfect installations of TC's a couple times.



Thanks,
John "Jay" Howson IV
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