Re: 81" Continuous Arcs!

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hey you Geeks,
Congratulations! Isn't it amazing what a gap can make! Marc has done a
fantastic job with the gap (Cudo's
Marc!). Is this the only change or were there some other "slight" changes?

Bart Anderson


Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Thanks to the completion of the new TCBOR-RQ gap by Marc, the Geek Group's
> Project Sam Tesla Coil is now officially a success having reached it's
> design goal of continuous 6' arcs.
> Pics will post tomorrow, after Mark Broker (who has just crossed the
> Illinois state line heading here with complete abandon for speed laws and
> will arrive at 0100hrs-EST) and I finish tweaking the new setup.
>
> We were expecting a performance improvement, but nothing as drastic as what
> happened. We've been dancing on the 41" barrier for months now, trying
> different setups, various gaps, etc.
>
> Marc's gap arrived at 1PM, and by 2 we had it tweaked and wired up for the
> first test. I'm glad we cought it on video....the audio track is something
> like....
>
> Ok...have you got the 220 set up?
>
> Yeah
>
> Ben, get the lights.
>
> Walker, ready?
>
> Yeah
>
> Ok....CLEAR
>
> (pop....pop......pop...poppopopopopoopopopopopopop)
>
> woah
>
> cool
>
> Ok, that's 90........100.....110
>
> WOW
>
> 120...130-Jesus
>
> HOLY S***
>
> (at this point the noise coming from 9 people in the room cheering becomes
> louder than the arcs, lol!)
>
> It was the most beautiful day of testing I've ever seen.
>
> The MMC Array took no less than 4 direct hits to the power rails and never
> missed a beat. Though my heart did every time it got hit. We remedied this
> by laying it flat and covering it with a dome of chicken wire. I need a
> couple lengths of 2AWG about 20' long each to run to the coil from the tank
> circuit. It's hitting the floor regularly now. When we put a breakout point
> on it hits the ceiling.
>
> I can't wait to melt it down in a couple weeks :)
>
> duck
>
> Christopher A. Boden Geek#1
> President / C.E.O. / Alpha Geek
> The Geek Group
> www.thegeekgroup-dot-org
> Because the Geek shall inherit the Earth!
>
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