Re: dead grass around our coil

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Justin,

How strange!  It seems that coils kill grass rather easily and to a far
greater degree than "I" would expect.  I would guess that high frequency
currents in the long grass blades do something to it.  Need a biologist or
science fair project to figure that one out.  I wonder if it works on
weeds...  Could be the beginning of a "practical use" for a Tesla coil :-))
 The effect seems powerful and reasonably long lasting.  I note that were I
ran my coil this summer has dirt bare spots now under where the primary was :O

Cheers,

	Terry



At 02:57 PM 8/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Heeey.
>
>Sorry this is a late post, our phone lines got cut by the city mowers and 
>really screwed things up ; )
>
>We (Aron and I) know for sure that the output arcs of our coil is killing the 
>grass. 
>
>We had a breakout point on one side of the toroid on a number of 18kVA 
>runs.........most of the ground hits were on that side. Consequently, there 
>was a noticeable elongation in the circular "dead grass" pattern around the 
>coil.
>
>Also, we had some metal shielding the HV input lines from the pig. This metal 
>got struck a number of times, and dissipated the power into the ground where 
>it made contact. There is a wide strip of dead grass in this area, that shows 
>exactly where the metal shielding was.
>
>Cool I think! Take care,
>
>Justin Hays
>KC5PNP
>G-1 #1150
>Email: pyrotrons-at-aol-dot-com
>Website: www.hvguy-dot-com
>