Re: tesla coil sfx

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Original poster: "Jeff W. Parisse by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jparisse-at-teslacoil-dot-com>

Justin,

Wow... that's a great idea! We'll give it a try...

(and then tell everyone not to do it!.... ha ha ha!)

Just kidding... ;-))

Great inspiration as Tesla would observe...


Jeff Parisse
kVA Effects

> Here's an idea I had the other day that I thought might be kind of cool if
it
> could be done. Here's my idea: What if someone built a coil that had a
toroid
> with thousands of little perforations in its surface, similar to the
surface
> on an air hockey table. Then they ran tubes connected to cylinders holding
> various compressed gases into the toroid. They could either run them up
> through the secondary coil and make a mechanical connection between the
tubes
> and the toroid. By using various types of gases, could they change the
color
> and appearance of the arcs coming from their toroid?