Re: tested my coil at neon shop!

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>

Tesla list wrote:

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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
<mailto:twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <mailto:Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com><Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
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> In a message dated 12/20/01 08:21:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> <mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes: 
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>> 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)????? 
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> what exactly are bombarders ? ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon 

Hi Jonathon...

Bombarders are basically a pole pig with a shot of steriods ;)   to boost the
amperage a bit to burn the impurities out of a newly filled neon tube (
sometimes used to "pre-burn" the tube before the gas fill) 

Scot D