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Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
From: Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 1997 5:10 PM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
In reply I can only say.....
> 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?
...because big sparks are a hell of a lot more fun :)
Malcolm
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