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RE: Coil at Frys

Steve,

It's a replica of the Griffith Park coil and was built and installed by Bill
Wysock.  You can see the details at: http://www.ttr-dot-com/what's_new.htm

Regards,
Brian D. Basura


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Subject: Re: Coil at Frys


Original Poster: "Steve Young" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-com> 

Hummm, sure sounds like it may be the other half of the TC at the Griffith
Observatory in Los Angeles!?  I understand originally it was a bipolar
design.

--Steve

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> Subject: Coil at Frys
> Date: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 8:54 AM
> 
> Original Poster: "LWRobertson" <LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com> 
> 
> Hi ...
> 
> For those in the SF Bay area there is a very nicely built
> coil at Frys Electronics new store at 680 and Automall
> Pky ( formerly Durham Rd. ) in Fremont. Entrance off of
> Osgoode. If you talk to a salesman they'll get someone
> to turn it on for you.
> 
> I guess it was built to emphasize historical accuracy over
> raw performance .
> 
> The secondary is conical, about 3 feet in diameter at the
> bottom, and a foot or so at the top, wound with around
> 300 turns of quite heavy space wound wire. A foot above
> the top is a copper sphere also about a foot in diameter
> with two discharge points arranged diametrically opposite
> each other.
> 
> Primary is 2 inch or so copper strip, nicely polished, as is
> the capacitor - gap - coil connections. Seems to be tapped
> around turn four.
> 
> The gap is a really pretty rotary driven by a cogged belt
> from a motor hidden underneath.
> 
> It's in a Faraday cage made from heavy chain link and built
> into a gazebo.
> 
> Makes fairly strong connected arcs to the chain link probably
> 4 feet away, easily visible in the well lit store. The inside of
> the gazebo is black, which helps.
> 
> When a keyswitch is turned it starts up a little while later
> for a few seconds (10 or 15 or so).The  guy who had the
> key didn't know who made it, but the workmanship is superb.
> Someone put a lot of time on  this one.
> 
> LR
> 
> 
> 
>