Fw: Hood mounted tiny tesla coil?

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Original poster: "jkooi by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jkooi-at-wish-dot-net>


----- Original Message -----
From: "jkooi" <jkooi-at-wishmail-dot-net>
To: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Hood mounted tiny tesla coil?


>
> This would work, but i think it would only work if the car isn't moving,
or
> at least really slow,
> since a tesla coil is based on ionised air, wich will be blown awy if you
> drive.
>
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> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:59 AM
> Subject: Hood mounted tiny tesla coil?
>
>
> > Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>
> >
> > I was just thinking (OH NO!) of a new project. A small tesla coil
powered
> > via by my car battery that would mount on a magna mount on the hood of
the
> > car and put out maybe 3" sparks. I think this would be awesome, and a
real
> > attention getter as long as it wasn't the kind of attention I don't
want.
> I
> > can see me sitting at night at a red light zapping away and getting
> > astonished looks.
> >
> > One problem I see with this is the RF getting into the computer of the
car
> > and damaging it but maybe filtering might help, or some other way of
> > designing the coil. Maybe a two pole coil where the secondary was not
> > grounded.
> >
> > Just want to get some thoughts on this.
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