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Re: 100 kva coil
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> >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