Re: How much are coils worth?

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Original poster: "Steve Rosenthal by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sdrosen-at-cwia-dot-com>

See what this brings....
http://cgi.ebay-dot-com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1617224991&r=0&t=0&sh
owTutorial=0&ed=996095483&indexURL=0&rd=1   and divide by 2.


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Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: How much are coils worth?


> Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
>
> > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <LazyBen13-at-aol-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've built a voltage doubler MOT coil and it throws considerable length
> > streamers (5 foot +). It has an MMC type cap, with a multiple static
spark
> > gap. Primary is 11 turns of copper tube, and secondary is 24 inches
winding
> > length, using 24 AWG wire. All in all it is about 5 feet tall. It is
built
> > really well and looks the part. I am now looking to sell it to fund a
project
> > (a jet gokart) and i was wondering; how much could I get for it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben Diprose
>
> if everything was new and it was run for testing and tweaking the arc
> length ...
> ummm its worth about 50 gallons of jet fuel ;) ( considering that JP-3 is
> about 3$a
> gallon)
>
> my small coil is probably worth about 700$ ( everything was new except the
> caps,
> variac, and case ... 4 15KV 30mA NST's, acrylic 8" dia secondary, 1/4" Cu
> tubing,
> plexiglass supports, counter top, bolts,screws, connectors, wire, etc. the
> control
> cabinet has a variac, volt and amp meters, switches, and an optional timer
> in it for
> display usage ) and now its used...   probably couldnt get much more than
> 250 -300$
> for the whole thing ( and that probably includes shipping too :)   )  plus
> ALOT of my
> time invested in making it...
>
> soooo...  what do ya do? keep it since there was a healthy investment and
> let it sit
> in the back of the shop using up valuable floor space and collecting dust
> or sell it
> at a major loss... decisions decisions.....
>
>
> Scot D
>
>
>
>