Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Tiny Little Tesla Thingy

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• Subject: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Tiny Little Tesla Thingy
• From: "christopher boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:35:35 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Alright...after another action packed day of winding coils and giving myself 
intermittant shock treatments I was playing with some 30AWG magnet wire and 
a pen. I wound it on the pen and in about 10 minutesI had a rather nice 
miniature secondary.

I am a model railroader and love building tiny little things. I was 
wondering if it were physically possible to build an incredibly small 
TC...like 1/4" dia secondary. Has anybody ever thought of this? done it?

Given that it wouldn't be any fun if it were easy I would like to make it a 
true reproduction of a full size one...spark gap and everything. I am 
guessing the gap would have to be rotary....DUH...there's no way to scale 
down the laws of physics so I cannot use a static gap.
The cap I don't know. I might be able to cheat with semiconductors...but I 
really would like to make small SW caps if possible.

Can this be done? Or is it yet another in a Looooooong series of dumb ideas 
and pipe dreams? :)

Alright.....let the flames begin.


Chris B.
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