Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for

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Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:26:39 -0500
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Sent: 	Thursday, September 18, 1997 6:01 PM
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Subject: 	Re: 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?

My opinion is that since Tesla was using ground currents to transmit power,
the corona over his topload would simply have been a matter of all the
charge stored there. Spark breakout would have killed the ground currents
at any given time, so the topload had to be so huge that sparks could never
break out. 
Huge charge=huge corona=mist-like plasma

Dan