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RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
From: atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com[SMTP:atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 8:53 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
Yes, I have built several Tesla Coils in the past. They probably weren't
optimally tuned but I did achieve a 5" or 6" discharge and I must say folks
around here did get a kick out of the spectacle. I most recently completed a
conversion of a drum type pen plotter to a CNC coil winder. The tesla coils
wond with the coil winder will be components to a system that will hopefully
be a successful marketable product (ya, right).
OK, I'll try one more time. Everything I've read about Tesla's Wardencliffe
power transmission system indicates that there was supposed to be a ball of
humming mist-like plasma at top of the tower, not a big crackly arc. If this
is so, why isn't anyone trying to achieve this mist-like (ion acoustic
resonant?) discharge at the top of their Tesla Coils?
At 06:44 PM 9/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 3:08 PM
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
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>Hi all,
> A further comment harking back to previous post....
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>> From: DamDeName-at-aol-dot-com[SMTP:DamDeName-at-aol-dot-com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 5:25 AM
>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>> Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>>
>> In a message dated 97-09-16 09:06:59 EDT, you write:
>>
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>> From: Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
>> Sent: Monday, September 15, 1997 7:53 PM
>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>> Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>>
>> RE:
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>> > From: atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com[SMTP:atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
>> > Sent: Monday, September 15, 1997 6:12 AM
>> > To: Tesla List
>> > Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>> >
>> > To even speculate the true and ultimate purposes Tesla had in mind of his
>> > inventions is taboo on this forum. I've concluded that this forum is for
>> > electronic fireworks hobbyists with competitions for ever greater length
>> of
>> > sparks.
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>> At least we're doing *real* research and making *real* things and
>> learning *real* things and getting *real* results not to mention
>> *real* measurements. I am quite happy to die knowing I have actually
>> *done* something.
>>
>> Malcolm
>> <snip>
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>> hi all-------- i felt i might contribute here ----
>>
>> this group is probably (hopefully) mostly concerned
>> in the focused study of Tesla's power processing technology .---- (the
>> general
>> view is covered under his u.s. patents ) --- 100 + of'em
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>> This area ----- to be properly studied, must have --- theory & lab
>> ---------this is a "hands on activity " --------
>> -------------------------- Generating a great many areas of study ------
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>> I feel the study of one of Dr. Tesla's ultimate purpose (having to do
>> with
>> global transmission of free energy etc.) -- is best served by
>> "studying sparks & their electro-mechanical sources"
>>
>> We know that a great scientist's work was "interrupted" -------
>> when he ran out of "energy" (different subject ) -----:>)
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>> Bearing in mind that his inventions --studied in chronological order --
>> were , in a sense, his "lab assignments " for past , present & future
>> study/theory ------- the purpose of which ---is-----" to gain on his personal
>> goal of understanding energy " ---- maybe -------- :>)
>>
>> all that aside ------
>>
>> I have yet to see any question relating to teslas work turned away
>> on this forum ----& think that the only way to understand is to study ---
>>
>> to study --- you need teachers ---- special teachers ---- teachers who
>> recognize student's stumbling blocks ----- one of which is----
>> ( when you fail to understand why a student doesn't
>> understand something --- you must become a student ----
>> --- or fail as a teacher -------- )---- nuff'
>>
>> Sandy
>> ps. -- have you built a coil ?
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>Somebody mentioned in passing a few days ago that Tesla was obtaining
>sparks from out of tune coils as a byproduct of his power
>transmission research. Anybody who has ever built a coil _knows_ you
>*do not* get sparks from out of tune coils.
>
>Malcolm
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