Re: Zima Zaps

["jason wallace" <jcwallace-at-cybrtown-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

hi gary you might even want to try using 5 gallon buckets they work great
and last along time.

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Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Zima Zaps


> Original poster: "Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com>
>
> Hi Garry.  Nice post.  I think that adding more zimas to your tank will
> allow you to tune your primary further inward and as a big plus, you will
> also notice an increase in streamers and length.  I also like to kick in
> a big set of four maxwell house coffee containers(for those of us
> teetotalers).  They are the biggest glass bottle coffee containers and
> have nice plastic screwon caps, just get rid of the paper seal that is
> tucked into the cap and discard it. You will then have a red plastic cap
> that you can work with. They are built up the same as the beer bottle
> caps, just increase the scale of the whole setup.  These big boys really
> improve my output when coupled with my existing doorknob cap set.   Al.
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:55:38 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> writes:
> > Original poster: "Garry F." <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> >
> > Six bottles of Zima corked with wax in a battery carrying case
> > hooked up to my
> > tesla coil = one revived tesla coil on a heart machine.
> >
> > Nice big streamers, some 10" streamers off an 8" wide 2" high
> > toriod.
> >
> > Zima's are about all I can stand, sometimes I like a beer but with
> > all the
> > alcoholics in my family much drinking past a near tea totaler(sp?)
> > gives me the
> > creeps.
> >
> > Anyway, the small secondary had lots of sparks shooting from the
> > bottom coils
> > to the Primary. I think I shall make a barrier to block the sparks.
> >
> > The tuning required all the primary to get the biggest sparks so I
> > suspect I
> > need more bottles. Ins't it correct to say that the bigger the cap
> > the less
> > primary windings are needed to  tune?
> >
> > The sparks were like the stacked caps - many sparks jumping back and
> > forth it
> > looked like a huge white version of the sparks in the spark gap
> > rather than the
> > fat lazy nicer looking spark I get off a transmitting doorknob cap.
> >
> > I susect this is because of the inductance of the long wires leading
> > to the
> > zima heart machine (the cap) leads to slow discharging or maybe just
> > low break
> > rate because of the longer path to the gap. I can't fit the cap
> > inside the
> > thing. Used coax with the stranded shield and the center wire
> > twisted together
> > to lead to the MBC (Many Bottle Cap)
> >
> > All these anachronisms remind me of the meaning of PCMCIA which is
> > People Can't
> > Memorize Computer Industry Anachronisms. I know I can't!
> >
> > Any ideas on this. I've seen coils I've built make these beautiful
> > lazy spark
> > that looks like a good candidate for a jacob's ladder and I've seen
> > coils that
> > produce many sparks, that look like they came off a capacitor, not
> > jacobs
> > ladder material. Not that I'm saying the latter sparks are less
> > pretty, I just
> > prefer the nice single sparks. They make a nice ripping sound too
> > especially
> > when I got a problem with yellow jackets, it just reaches out and
> > knocks em out
> > of the air. I got a video of that. I got this grimace of vengence.
> > Yellowjackets are defanately not my friends.
> >
> >
> >
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