Re: 100 kva coil

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• Subject: Re: 100 kva coil
• From: Dan Gowin <gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil>
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:25:49 -0500

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Re: 100 kva coil
> 
> >From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comWed Sep 25 21:03:02 1996
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:50:30 -0700
> From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: 100 kva coil
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > >From MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nzTue Sep 24 22:30:04 1996
> > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:07:09 +1200
> > From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: Re: 100 kva coil
> >
> > Richard,
> >           You wrote....
> >
> > > The slightest and most gentle zephyer will decimate a Tesla arc!!!
> > > Outdoor coils are always at the mercy of the wind.  Get your nice
> > > perfomrer coil and take a large window fan and blow right at the toroid.
> > >  I turned a three foot hot arc into an 8" streamer with such an
> > > experiment.  Ions are the arc in a coil!!!!!
> >
> > Have you thought about the using the fan to direct the ions to a
> > collection electrode? Seems to me you might get a moderately
> > efficient rectifier right there.
> >
> > Malcolm
> 
> Malocolm,
> 
> Been there, done that.  In our 1993 ESJ article on Tesla electrostatics
> we used it to prove that the bulk of the output of the Tesla coil was an
> ion related phenomena.
> 
> I have used this prinicpal of late, (Tape report #53), to show how to
> power electrostatic engines, motors, and other DC devices from a running
> 15 watt coil.
> 
> Richard Hull, TCBOR

Richard,
	Very interesting. I would like to know how you control/channel
your ions. Do you use a plastic tube to channel and control there
energy loss? I would be very interrested in the setup.

D. Gowin

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