RE: Tesla Coils

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Original poster: "Ted Rosenberg by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Ted.Rosenberg-at-radioshack-dot-com>

Michael:
Step one is to join the Tesla chat list. Go to http://www.pupman-dot-com and
sign up. You can then ask and receive info from as many as 600 or so coilers
around the world.

While you're there, open and carefully read the Richard Quick pages of how
to build a coil.
There are some other pages that will help. Check the Tesla Ring for great
web pages of very innovative and successful coilers. Plenty of How-To with
great photos.
My page (not finished yet) will describe, step by step, how I built a really
decent 900W coil which produces 24-36" sparks using a 15/60 transformer, MMC
and a static spark gap of my own design.

The amount of money and your access to various tools will have an effect.
Some folks have a lathe to wind the secondary. Others will build a motorized
winder or a hand driven winder.

Some can afford the $100 an MMC might cost. Others will build tank caps from
polyethelene and aluminum and place it in Tupperware filled with Motor Oil
(yuch and UGH)

So my point is that it is entirely up to you. We all will be glad to answer
questions as you go along. Prepare for a wonderful education!!!!

Ted in Texas

-----Original Message-----
From: michael palmer [mailto:palmer_michael-at-yahoo-dot-com]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:37 AM
To: snip...
Subject: Tesla Coils


Hello to all. My buddy and  I are 16 and he 17 and
have been in electronics since we were around the ages
of 7 and 8.  We have masterd th Jacob's Ladder and now
are real intersted in bulilding a tesla coils. I have
a 15KV 30ma neon sign transformer, several Capacitors.
Do you have any advice for us? And also do you have
any step by step info on how to build one? We have a
general idea but want to play it safe. Good Luck To
All Builders, Godbless, and thank you verry much in
advane for all youre help.                            
                                                      
                     Michael W. Palmer & Brian Odjesky

Mpalmer75-at-hotmail-dot-com
or
palmer_michael-at-yahoo-dot-com
or
palmer_michael-at-juno-dot-com

I am a mail Junkie  :~)