Re: Zima Zaps

["Albert Hassick" <uncadoc-at-juno-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi Jason.  This is very interesting.  What kind of soap do you use!   
AL.


On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 20:28:36 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "jason wallace" <jcwallace-at-cybrtown-dot-com> 
> 
> hi gary,
> try putting some soap in the bottles this will make the salt water 
> more
> increase your cap size.  i've noticed when i tried it before that my 
> spark
> size all most double in size.
> just add soap and stir real slow because you don't want any bubbles. 
> jason
> wallace two cents :)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:55 AM
> Subject: Zima Zaps
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>