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Re: Practical use of a tesla coil
From: Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 1997 9:50 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Practical use of a tesla coil
>> Ive recently been working with a TV and film lighting company (ARRI)
>> and they use tesla coils in the balast units for their high power
>> discharge lights. The tesla coil is used as an ignighter for the lamp
>> and generates 4" of spark, no toroid, just heavilly insulated wire.
>
>Could you give some more details about the lamp this coil drives?
>I vaguely remember that a product called "earth light" also contained a
>small Tesla coil to drive a electrodeless fluorescent tube to yield high
>efficiency lighting, these however were designed for residential usage in a
>normal light bulb socket.
Yeah, i'd like to know the details too. Sounds as if it may be a large
cold-cathode lamp similar to a scaled up version of a xenon photoflash
tube, only continuous.
Whatever it is, I'll bet it runs hot :-)
-Adam
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