Re: tesla coil sfx

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Original poster: "Alex Madsen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alexmadsen-at-yahoo-dot-com>

You might be able to coil a small tube around your primary. Almost like the
magnet wire is.  This in several hundred feet of gas. For example take a
6.25 in diameter 26 in primary. if you wrapped it in 1/8 in od tube you
would have 3.14(pi)*6.25(di.)*8(w/in)*26(in)= 4082 in of tubing or 340 ft.
As a rough guess based of the handbook of C & P you need for every foot your
spark is you need 6.25 ft for argon, 1 for nitrogen, 2 for hydrogen( this
could get ugly fast), 1.8 O2, He 6.66, 4 Ne, 1.19.
Note: These are under normal conditions I have no idea what high rf will do
to these.

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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: tesla coil sfx


> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
>
> Hi Justin,
>
> Cool idea!
>
> I think you would need only a few holes were you want the streamers to
> breakout from.  Supplying the gas from an external tube may be hard since
> many gases conduct fairly well at 250kV RF :-)   Small gas cylinders could
> probably be placed on or in the toroid as long as it was done safely.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry
>



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