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

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:41:26 -0500
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Subject: 	Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for

In a message dated 97-09-18 18:38:22 EDT, you write:

<< > 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? >>


I do it everyday--Wardencliffe is but a watershed of nonlinear power
conversions.  I would recommend everyone on the list try remodulating their
coils accordingly and see what I mean.

And the "mist-like" plasma is cool too.

Samuel Uncler