Re: Book on Tesla Coil and HV

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Subject: Re: Book on Tesla Coil and HV
From: Gary Weaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:07:03 -0800
Subscriber: gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net Fri Jan 24 22:36:50 1997

Sorry to hear you bought Gordon McCombs 55 space age projects.  I have the 
same book.  I have not found any project in the book that works.  Unless you 
have a reprint with curcuit changes the circuit drawings are wrong.  Plasma 
Sphere project 3 circuit will not work.  A simular circuit is listed on the 
internet that does work.  Project 4 which is the same circuit as project 6 
the Tesla coil does not work. The circuit is wrong.  If you make some changes 
the circuit will work but it will not power the tesla coil. The tesla coil 
secondary produces no output at all.  If you change project 6 circuit so it 
will work it makes a better plasma sphere than project 3.  My book is copy 
write 1990.  This book will cause you to get very frustrated and mad.  I 
would suggest returning the book for a refund.

Gary Weaver


> I just got a fairly good book called "Gordon McComb's Gadgeteer's Goldmine:
> 55 space-age projects" (ISBN 0-8306-3360-X) at Border's Books and music for
> around $25. It has several high-voltage projects in it geared toward the
> beginner, Including how to make:
> A plasma Sphere
> Tesla Coil (disruptive system, using a ignition coil as the input Xformer)
> Induction Coil (solid-state tesla coil)
> Van de Graaff generator
> Radio transmitters, laser projects, strobe lights, robots, etc....
> 
> -James