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An EXTREAMLY Bargain-basement coil
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From: Grayson Dietrich [SMTP:greystone21-at-rocketmail-dot-com]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 1998 3:46 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: An EXTREAMLY Bargain-basement coil
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> On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Grayson Dietrich wrote:
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> >
> > Hello, I'm 15 and recently completed my foruth
> > coil(really only the second one since I really knew
> > what I was doing)The secondary form is a heavy
> > cardboard tube, once used to give me a poster as a
> > birthday present. The wire for the secondary was
all
> > taken from the windings on the back of CRT's, and
is
> > all 22 gauge. The primary is heavy(14 gauge I
> > believe)stranded wire wrapped 15 times around a
> > reinforced cool-whip container. The caps are salt
> > water,4 of them, and, before I could locate an
actual
> > transformer to run it, I ran it off a variety of
> > things, mostly flyback transformers, both still in
> > the T.V.'s and powered with a driver using 2 2n3055
> > transistors. It gave a six inch visible discharge
> > from a 1.25 inch steel ball that I mounted on top.
> > 1.75 inch hot discharges were attained with the
same
> > setup. The est. current and voltage that the
flybacks
> > were giving is 20kv at perhaps 1 or 2 ma. i have a
> > friend who is going to let me borrow his 6kv 30 ma
> > neon sign transformer. Also, another friend
recently
> > gave me a 2000v microwave oven transformer,
suspected
> > to be 500 watts or more. I'm thinking about
building
> > a voltage doubler for it, eithert before or after
the
> > transformer. I'll post again when I run it off the
> > neon.
> >
> > HV4EVER
> > Greystone
> >
> >
> >