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Warthog coil pictures
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From: Larry Bud Melman [SMTP:gasman-at-althea.a-line-dot-net]
Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 4:10 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Warthog coil pictures
Bert:
Your pics are awesome. Wish I'd been able to attend your get-together...
(That was you, right? I had just subscribed to this list then...)
As it happens, I'm in the process of building a coil with very
similar specs, though my PP has a bit more voltage - rated 22,900 vac with
120/240 input; I figure hooking up to the 280 posts on my variac will give
me about 27,000 volts.
Too bad - after seeing your pics, it occurred to me that perhaps I
should try to emulate the warthog, until I realized this difference. I
suppose just changing one thing like that sort of negates any coincidental
similarities.
WHY DID I HAVE TO GO HIGHER VOLTAGE.... :-)
Congrats.
('Course, I could still emulate it, I guess, and just hold voltage down
on the input side...but you know, humans have this incorrigible tendency to
turn the knob further to the right...or, at least, I can speak for myself...)
;-)
My PP is rated at 10 kVA; I take that to mean that when it's sitting
on top of a pole, in Phoenix, in August, with no wind, and full sun, it will
do 10 kVA all day long without melting. I'll bet it will do 15, or 20, for
short periods of tesla-izing (like you can run a variac {far} over rated output
for short periods...?!
Really, really cool coil. Congrats again.
Clay