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RE:- Parts search
Subject: RE:- Parts search
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:03:15 GMT
From: robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org (Robert Michaels)
Organization: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
T>I recently went on a search for all the necesary parts. I had to go
out
T>way
T>in the country to a neon sign shop operating out of garage. For 1o
T>dollars I
T>got a perfectly good neon transformer that was capable of throwing up
to
T>12 foot arcs if used the right way. I haven't tryed it yet though.
Yeh, yeh, that's pretty standard performance. Using a
ball park figure of about 1-million volts per 6-ft. of
arc length, your 12-foot arcs would equate to about
2-million volts.
That's about what we usually get from your basic $10
neon transformer. Just plug 'er in and let those 12-ft.
arcs rip - assuming you...eh..."use it the right way",
of course.
Midnight toking in - Detroit, USA
Robert Michaels
P.S.: Whatever it is you've been smoking - any chance you
can get me a kilo of it?