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- To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
- Subject: Re: lightning balls
- From: Calle Laakkonen <laakkone-at-icenet.fi>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:40 -0800
- References: <33262EBD.5527-at-stic-dot-net>
> Subject: lightning balls > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:02:35 -0500 (EST) > From: Matthew Allen Curtis <curtisma-at-engin.umich.edu> > To: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com> > CC: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com > > I'm not an expert coiler or anything, but have done a decent amount of > research even though I have yet to complete my first TC. I was just > wondering if those comercial lightning things (you know the glass ball > with lightning inside) have any relation to Tesla Coils?? > > just curious, > > Matt Curtis > curtisma-at-umich.edu These "lightning balls" are plasma globes. Tesla Coils are sometimes used to power these things. You can get more info on plasma globes from Bill Beaty's pages: http://www.eskimo-dot-com/~billb/ -Calle
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