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Re: lightning balls




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> 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
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> 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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