Re: tested my coil at neon shop!

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 12/20/01 08:21:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes: 


>
> Wow, NEON bombarders are FUN to play with. I asked a local Neon Sign shop 
> owner about his companies neon bombarder, it runs 480 VAC input single phase 
> (i don't know how many amps input), we got talking about high voltage stuff. 
> I asked him if he had ever played with a TESLA COIL....anyway he agreed to 
> hook the tesla coil. 
>
> First test at 12 kV/ 60 mA 
> (720W = 48" sparks) already over 1 million volts! 
>
> Second test 15 kV/ 150 mA 
> (2.25 kW = 89 - 91" sparks) 
>
> .....I wonder what max bombarder power would do (15 kV/ 1A)?????




what exactly are bombarders ? 

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