Re: EMP cabinet

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: EMP cabinet
From: Stanley Harle <lazer-at-earth.wazoo-dot-com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:10:28 -0600 (MDT)



On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Tesla List wrote:

> >         Do you seal the ends of your tubes?
> > 
> 
> Never...ever do I seal the end of a tube.  They remain hollow through and 
> through!!  Basically, it is saw it off...Wipe it down with some suitable 
> carcinogenic agent and wind away.  After I finish, I go to the computer 
> and figure out how much wire I put on and about how many turns there are. 
>  I use a very old but very suitable program called Tesla 551 to figure 
> out what the inducatnce and res freq. should be. (again, only after the 
> tube is wound up)  Finally I ring the thing out with all the test gear 
> and find out what it really is to within a few percent.  On a stockish 
> winding the program comes out to within 10%, usually.
> 
	This is reassuring since I've never gotten around to sealing the
ends of mine, and still get fairly decent performance from it (i.e. about
17" from 900 VA). I had to dismantle mine for a bit because of an intense
travel schedule, and wife's requirments to clean the garage before I set
something on fire.

Stan