Re: dead grass around our coil

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Original poster: "S.Gaeta by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sgtporky-at-prodigy-dot-net>

Hi All,

I remember running across some old printed material where people were
experimenting with using a Tesla coil to make the plants grow faster and
healthier. I guess we can file that old yarn into the same folder along with
the radium cures of the good old days!

My ferns don't seem to mind the ozone and nitrous acid but they have never
suffered any direct hits from streamers.

Sue

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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: dead grass around our coil


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Pyrotrons-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> 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
>
>
>