Re: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i wind my secondary?)

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Original poster: "Mark Hales by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <markhals-at-dircon.co.uk>

Mike.
That was me. The science museum in Canberra had (has?) a coil apparently
rated at 3 million volts, but then the speaker also told the audience it was
"just like the ignition coil in your car!" Threw some monster streamers,
though, probably in excess of 20 feet! As ans aside, they've also got the
biggest Jacobs ladder I've ever seen or will ever see.
Maybe some Aussies on the list can come up with some pix on a website?
Cheers, Mark Hales.
markhals-at-dircon.co.uk


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Subject: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i wind my
secondary?)


> Original poster: "Mike Harrison by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>
>
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:05:40 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> >
> >> Really, your argument makes sense, and looking at a paper (1936)
> >> describing the big Roud Hill double Van de Graaff generator I see that
> >> the maximum voltage was higher at the negative terminal (2.7 MV x
> >> 2.4 MV), meaning that breakout was easier at the positive terminal.
> >
> > Anyone visiting Boston should make an effort to see the high-voltage
> >demonstration at the  Boston Museum of Science, where half of the Round
> >Hill generator is operated for the amazement of visitors.  Got a chance
> >to see it about a year ago, and it sure was worth the trouble to get
> >there.  Had quite an array of Tesla Coils running at the same time.
>
> Has anyone compiled a worldwide list of museums featuring TCs and
> other HV demos ? If not, how about maintaining a list at pupman-dot-com -
> I'm sure if every list member submitted the places they knew of, we'd
> already be pretty close to a full list.
>
> (At the UK Teslathon last year someone told me they had a big TC at
> Canberra - I was in Australia the month before and could have visited
> if only I'd known!)
>
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