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Re: Pipe scraps
Robert,
Experienced indeed! Such efficiency. 52" with 900 watts! Way!
Awsome! What are the specs on your micas (series, parallel, individual
value?)
I heard that you use really big chokes on your neon to protect it. How is
it
holding up? How long have you run it? What brand of neon do you have.
Is it new or used. Primary, flat spiral or dish or?
I used two 5kv photocopier transformers with a grounded center arrangement
which use about 2400 watts (using the 20 ampere breaker test). I don't
know the number of turns but it has 5 lbs of #18 heavy formvar magnet
wire on it with .065uF polyproplene capacitor with a rotary gap. I think
that the dent may be a detriment.
Barry
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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
|Date: Sunday, October 06, 1996 8:52PM
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|>|> Subject: Pipe scraps
|>Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
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|From rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-netSun Oct 6 13:15:09 1996
|Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 19:38:39 -0500
|From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-net>
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
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|>Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 12:25:14 -0600
|>From: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
|>To: Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
|>Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
|>Reply-to: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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|>|> Subject: Pipe scraps
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|>>From Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.milSat Oct 5 12:07:17 1996
|>Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 09:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
|>From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
|>To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
|>Subject: Re: Pipe scraps
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|>I got 56" sparks from a 6" X 27" (used) piece of 1/4" wall pvc sewer pipe
|>(euwwwwww)!.
|>(I dare any scrounge maven to top that one!!! Richard??). Some of the
|>bulldozer tread marks
|>were hard to clean out though. It still has a slight oval shape.
|>Barry
|
|<el major snippo>
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|Barry,
|
|Sounds excellent!..._but_ how much input power did you use?
|I have a single 15 kV -at- 60 mA neon
|powered coil, multi-section static gap, 0.008 mfd cap (made with a bank of
30
|mica's), secondary 24" wound length of #26 on 4.25 inch dia, 3/16" thick
|'salvaged' PVC sewer pipe from a construction site. I luckily found
|some lengths without bulldozer marks. I did not prep the tube with
|any coatings before winding. Several coats of varathane after, I can get
52
|inchers to a large flat surface grounded metal target.
|
|You're talking to an experienced scrounger here! : )
|
|regards,
|
|rwstephens
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