RE: Fast ground rod

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hi Godfrey, All,

You weren't the only one laboring under the
misconception that bigger coils needed bigger power
supplies. I remember the same series of posts. I think
I was even a contributor. So wallplug power is the
sole arbiter of spark length? Oh well, live and learn.
Gotta run now, I've got a project going in the garage.
I'm going to wind a secondary with welding cable
around a 55 gal plastic drum, and fire it up with an
OBIT.

Regards,

Greg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry
> Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Well I guess I should have wrote that it was my
> dictum. I would hate to
> search the archives for the listings which led me to
> form this dictum. It
> was simply a series of listings which seemed to be
> saying that big coils
> needed big power supplies. I was certainly a
> believer. After getting a 10
> inch diameter secondary form Marc Metlicka and
> seeing the huge size of the
> form, my impression was complete. I decided that I
> would need my 14.4kV/5kVA
> pole pig for the power supply. I am far from
> completing my pig system, but I
> am thinking about Marc's suggestion of using a
> triggered gap. My adult
> experience with tesla coils is limited to diameters
> not exceeding four
> inches. A was aware of Terry's big research coil
> using a 15kV/60mA NST, but
> I just assumed that he did not want long streamers
> because they would get in
> the way of making measurements. So I was very
> surprised when I saw Terry's
> big coil in action. 
> 
> If you look at John's formula for streamer length,
> it says that streamer
> length is only a function of wallplug watts. Yes
> sir,
> that's what it says. When someone off the list (now
> on the list) told me
> that he had a 12 inch diameter secondary, I told him
> that he had to load up
> on NSTs or get a pig. Rick got five 15kV/30mA NSTs,
> but he did say that he
> wanted to start off with over 100mA. Well I always
> have said, "how could you
> be so wrong about something that you thought was so
> right."
> 
> Godfrey Loudner
> 


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