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Re: Plans in 1969 Magazine
From: ntesla-at-ntesla.csd.sc.edu[SMTP:ntesla-at-ntesla.csd.sc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 5:16 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Plans in 1969 Magazine
>At 04:42 PM 11/5/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>From: mikey1[SMTP:mikey1-at-gladstone.uoregon.edu]
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 11:40 AM
>>To: Tesla List
>>Subject: Re: Plans in 1969 Magazine
>>
>>Tesla List wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Rod Clark[SMTP:clarkr-at-MR.Net]
>>> Reply To: clarkr-at-MR.Net
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 1997 7:21 PM
>>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>> Subject: Plans in 1969 Magazine
>>>
>>> I built a Tesla coil way back around 1969 or 1970. It was a neon sign
>>> transformer driven, glass plate cap, spark gap type. I think the
>>> magazine was called 'Electronic Experimenter's Handbook' or 'Radio
>>> Experimenter's Handbook'. It could have been some other magazine. I
>>> just don't recall.
>>> Does anyone know what the magazine might have been, and how I can get a
>>> copy of this article again?
>>>
>>> Rod Clark
>>>
>>> clarkr-at-MR-dot-net
>
This was also my first coil. It was wound with about #30 wire from a large
solenoid. I used glass plate caps and an orange drop-cord for the primary.
I could get about 18" out of it with a 30-turn helical primary. The next
coil was a 12" diameter, 48" bi-polar coil as drawn out in Ford's
"Tesla-coil Secrets". That one was powered by a 12kV 30mA neon xformer, and
used an 8-point rotary gap. I got about 18" from each terminal. I know now
that I had too much primary. 24-turns helical, 24" dia.
>
>Big TC would be better at half the height and 6" in diameter, wound with
#22 wire, and a nice toroid on top. ;) But as it was many coiler's first
coil, it kinda deserves a place in history, I think. :)
>
>Dan
>ntesla-at-ntesla.csd.sc.edu
>